silver-eagle
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A rather interesting feat:
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/article_002441.shtml
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/article_002441.shtml
silver-eagle said:A rather interesting feat:
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/article_002441.shtml
Might give a new meaning to a slop landing, as well...Frank Browne said:I would have thought that the summit of Everest would not be big enough for a helicopter landing.
RotaryWingBob said:Might give a new meaning to a slop landing, as well...
Frank Browne said:I would have thought that the summit of Everest would not be big enough for a helicopter landing.
fgcason said:.....
The problem is having enough whoppity flop oomph to get up there....
Ed Guthrie said:Way cool. Do I need a permit from Nepal or China if I want to open a heli-skiing operation on Everest?
I suspect the client list would be huge.
Henning said:Oh man, did you ever see the video of the Japanese guy who tried for some ski record down Everest? IIRC he was one of the very early skiiers on the mountain, I think his name maybe Kawasaki. It was a few decades ago, and he was doing it with a drouge chute on to keep him slowed down, and it was working reall well.....until. The edge of the chute tags a rock and it starts the chute spinning and collapsing and that's when things went horribly wrong. Dude was flying and bouncing off rocks like a freakin rag doll for a Long way before he came to a stop. One of those videos where you go "Oooooo that hurt..and that, and OWWW Dang!!...He's dead, look at that hit to the head." It was amazingly brutal, but IIRC the guy lived, hard to imagine the abuse the human body is capable of withstanding.
BTW There already are Heli Skii ops on Everest, have been for quite awhile. Seems to be a big thing with the Aussies.
Dave Krall CFII said:Saw that video. The guy fell MANY times the distance longer than he skied. I think it was over one mile for the fall/tumble. He was an animal.
Henning said:Oh man, did you ever see the video of the Japanese guy who tried for some ski record down Everest? IIRC he was one of the very early skiiers on the mountain, I think his name maybe Kawasaki. It was a few decades ago, and he was doing it with a drouge chute on to keep him slowed down, and it was working reall well.....until. The edge of the chute tags a rock and it starts the chute spinning and collapsing and that's when things went horribly wrong. Dude was flying and bouncing off rocks like a freakin rag doll for a Long way before he came to a stop. One of those videos where you go "Oooooo that hurt..and that, and OWWW Dang!!...He's dead, look at that hit to the head." It was amazingly brutal, but IIRC the guy lived, hard to imagine the abuse the human body is capable of withstanding.