Greek AH-64 Apache flathats, crashes

[kham]

What's Greek for "hold my beer and watch this!" ?

Take more 'n two coats of paint...

And they both survived. Although I am uncertain they would think that was such a good thing....

[PM2K]

What's Greek for "hold my beer and watch this!" ?

Take more 'n two coats of paint...

And they both survived. Although I am uncertain they would think that was such a good thing....

"That's coming out of your paycheque, soldier!"

[Tim Kelly]

In the words of Stavros (Harry Enfield);
"Hello, everybody peeps.....AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!"
Or as Colonel Cochrane (Malcolm McDowall) said in "Blue Thunder":
"You can't loop the loop in a chopper, it's aerodynamically impossible".
Although later, he said,
"THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!.....AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!"

[kham]

I think this one, be more like

Pilot: "Well, what do we do now??"
Nose Gunner: "Who's this WE, motherfucker??"

[nachtjaeger]

Ouch. I have wondered at the purpose of flying a rotorcraft in that manner.

[kham]

It's not a unique thing , either

This video from 2012 shows a US Army Apache also hotdogging it in snowy Afghanistan, with even more spectacular results. Having young guys and hot flying machines can result in impared judgement

[nachtjaeger]

I don't know if I mentioned this before- I have also wondered if the early crashes of the V-22 Osprey were caused by pilots trying to flare a landing in an aircraft that has way too low a mass/lift ratio to do that successfully.

It's not a unique thing , either

This video from 2012 shows a US Army Apache also hotdogging it in snowy Afghanistan, with even more spectacular results. Having young guys and hot flying machines can result in impared judgement

[kham]

Hardware problems
Software problems
And a system being pushed way to hard to be operationally when was nowhere near out of the T&E phase

[Chimerix]

I don't know if I mentioned this before- I have also wondered if the early crashes of the V-22 Osprey were caused by pilots trying to flare a landing in an aircraft that has way too low a mass/lift ratio to do that successfully.

Nope.

It's a rare thing, but in this case, 100% of the Osprey crashes to date have been failure of the aircraft, not of the pilot. Some of them make for really sad reading.

[nachtjaeger]

Thanks for setting me straight on that.