Ultalight helicopter crash video

[Wolfman]

This one is not as bad as it could have, I don't think. It says "Drink and fly", but I think that is an assumption.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/drinkandfly.html

The camera guy says "Hog (?), are you alright? Hog, just get away from that thing. Just get away from it!".

So I have to assume Hog was the pilot, and walked away, it's hard to tell though.

[Victor Duarte]

id just say that if the air is compressible, the aircrafts too !! :D
the advantage is it takes less place in the hangar...

[quadrirotor]

This compresses the wallet too!...

[Victor Duarte]

lol hey ! there have been inflatable airplanes lets do an inflatable gyro!
http://www.prospective-concepts.ch
http://www.spacer.com/news/plane-inflatable-wing-01a.html
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show2_articlea.php?id=02-013

[animal]

This one is not as bad as it could have, I don't think. It says "Drink and fly", but I think that is an assumption.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/drinkandfly.html

The camera guy says "Hog (?), are you alright? Hog, just get away from that thing. Just get away from it!".

So I have to assume Hog was the pilot, and walked away, it's hard to tell though.

I have the whole video of that, it happened in fla.
the guy was not drinking, he had bought the helicopter and was told not to try and fly in with out his instructior, some people at the airport wanted him to move it to a differant part of the ramp,as you can see he learned the hard way that a helicopter will get away from you quick., I did not see the video on the site as i have slow dailup, but in the full video after it has crashed you see the camera guy walk around the wreakage,he shows the Hobbs meter, if you look close you can see this guy tyed a rope around the cyclic stick trying to limit the motion,needless to say this does not work. in the video the camera guy says that $29,000 shot in the a$$, so that tell you how old that video is.
I got the tape from Bill Parsons many years ago,it was on a video he made as an intro to gyros for his students,one of my freind went and flew with him,but decided Gyros where not for him,so he gave me the tape, I still have it. he also showed an airshow where ken brock was doing his spin with the smoke on and did not pull out in time,wiped out the machine,but Ken stood up and waved at the crowd that he was ok, and the show went on.

[Doug Riley]

This one's been discussed on Norm's site in the past. The helo is a Hughes 269, I believe: not an ultralight but an N-numbered type-certificated aircraft.

It shows that flying is by reflex. Things happen too fast for you to "think your way through." The "pilot" is way behind the machine from the start and gets farther behind as the moments go by. Looks like my first gyroglider solo, except that I dropped semi-softly into a snowbank and didn't wreck the gyro.

[gyroplanes]

I still have it. he also showed an airshow where ken brock was doing his spin with the smoke on and did not pull out in time,wiped out the machine,but Ken stood up and waved at the crowd that he was ok, and the show went on.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't Ken Brock in the video. I think it was Bill Parsons himself.