Now, try it in a helicopter with a 79 foot diameter main rotor above you and a 14 ton LAV-25 on your sling hooks!
Posted on 09/30/2020 6:05:25 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
You know, you may be right. I can't find a definitive reference, but I believe the engines are numbered from 1 to 4 from port outboard to starboard outboard.
It could very well be that the collision was with the starboard engines or wing, and the damage to the port side (prop on #1, missing refueling pod,) occurred during the wheels up landing.
Good eye!
You’re probably correct. I’d ride that herc anyday...
A few engine swaps, redhorse compacts 800 ft of the field, strap on jato bottles and away we go!
Interesting that the right outboard engine looks really messed up, and the left outboard is missing a couple of blades.
Looks like the pilot did a great job getting it down.
Between the wing tip vortices and the prop vortices and the usual turbulence on a hot day, there are simply too many things trying to kill you.
That pilots do this day and night in all sorts of weather so successfully and with so few accidents is a testament to their skill and our ingenuity.
They make it look easy even when it’s not.
And even when it went terribly wrong, they all walked away to try again another day.
Thank YOU, God! The training never stops.
Now, try it in a helicopter with a 79 foot diameter main rotor above you and a 14 ton LAV-25 on your sling hooks!
No visible structural damage. Change out the engines, get the landing gear back to function, fly it out of there.
The pilot brought it down soft as a (really big) feather. Skills.
Left outboard engine is #1, right outboard is #4.
Thank goodness the crew is safe.
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