Precision Insanity -- Chuck Aaron's Aerobatic Helicopter (Part 1)

Aero TV Network ^ | December 12, 2008 | Aero News TV

[smokingfrog]

Red Bull gives you rotors?

So what makes pilot Charles "Chuck" Aaron's airshow act so special? Well, all you had to do was watch his HELI-AEROBATIC act at Oshkosh to know that something SERIOUSLY DIFFERENT had come to Wittman Field. The Red Bull BO-105 CBS, made by Eurocopter/Messerschmitt Boelkow Blohm (MBB), blew everyone away with a routine rarely seen anywhere, much less at world-class airshow like Oshkosh.

[smokingfrog]

Cool video. Remember the helicopter loop in the movie Blue Thunder? That was done with a radio controlled model. This one is for real.

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[Travis McGee]

Way cool!

[smokingfrog]

Part 2 shows that a little bit better, I think. (This is the YouTube link, but for me it seems to play better on the AeroTV website.)

[the invisib1e hand]

Very inspiring, the innovation part of it. Extremely cool to watch.

The guy has "california" written all over him, tho.

[smokingfrog]

yeah

[steve86]

Last aerobatic helicopter act I saw was at the 1986 Abbotsford International Airshow. Anyone else there?

So the comments in the video about “this has never been done” aren’t exactly true. Maybe in a U.S. airshow, but not in Canada or Europe.

R/C helicopters, BTW, do much more aggressive routines as you might expect.

[uncle fenders]

If you want to see SICK helicopter flying, watch this video, about 45 seconds of wording at the beginning, then its nuts

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVdEbAYkSY&feature=PlayList&p=078403A8BBFA89C5&index=35