n20junkie
Heliman
Location:
| that slingload was done by me, in the last picture that is me outside the heliciopter shutting it down, it took us 3 hours to do the load, it was dec 25 th that we did it, it came in that night with the field conditions severe IFR, it as a danish bird with an american contract pilot, he came in about mid field when he finaly brok out of the clouds and at 50 ft agl, he hit the wet runway and started sliding, got to teh 1000 ft marker and realized tha he still had live wing stores and he punched out and laned in a mine field, there is a berm at the end of the runway that folded the nose gear in and then it slid 500 ft, it had alot of fuel stil in it and we had to land after 45min of hover time while we tried to burn our fuel off, but ended up landing, emptying all of the equipment out of the bird into a truck and tried it again, we were at max torque and above validation factor ( above Gross weight) and could only get it that 10 feet of the ground, as soon as we landed we had to refuel to get us back to parking, that is why the panel on the side of the helicopter is open, it the refuel panel.
Grant Farmer
Chinook Flight Engineer |
Now thats something you don't see everyday!
