Larry, Bernice and I were hanging out at the hangar yesterday, I'd just finished the last few details on the 100 hr and cleaned the Tangerine baby, and this little toy flew in. She was loaded for bear, they were off to shoot up some shit on the nearby military practice area. What an awesome machine! Crew were great, I think I noticed some white stains around Larry's fly after we got a close up look and talked a bit with the guys. Pilot looked all of 19, but we calculated he was a bit older than that as he's been flying these for 7-8 years. Sound is awesome. Got some cool video, but probably better not to post on You Tube etc.

Nice.... matt black, no numbers, minigun hanging out of the drivers window who could ask for more did you sneak up and put a wolverine sticker on it

Did they get to see annoying orange? They would be impressed to see that as well, probably

No annoying orange was all tucked away. Man once those blades started spinning, annoying orange would have been hovering.That little mini-gun apparently pops off about 3000 rounds per min. There was one on the other side as well. Kitted for in-flight refueling, the whole deal.

Were they S.O.A.R?
Or Chairforce Pave/Lows?
Worked with the AF CCT a bit years ago, good group.

Could be; Rangers on their way to blow up shit. I'm sure that range north of Deland has to be hog free this morning.

Yea it looked like a soar bird.
The 160th special operations aviation regiment.
Best and brightest pilots Army has nicknamed the Nightstalkers.
Ive shot miniguns from a helo, it really takes the whole "skill" thing out of the equation!

I really need to hang out at that Airport more.
some really cool stuff does fly in and out of there, that is for sure.
sunday morning we had another airshow in front of the house, to biplanes where doing aerobatic and mock dog fighting, it was cool, they flew out of sight chasing each other and doing loops and rolls in the mock dog fight.
one even had a smoke system on it.
it did a few vertical rolls and hammer head with the smoke on.

I think those rotor-tips are major cool...

Wonder if we will ever design a composite rotorblade for gyro's, with special tips?

I doubt it, the turned down tips would help stop the air flowing over the tips of the driven rotors.... I don't think it would be any advantage to an autorotating gyro rotor, in fact it would prolly interfere.... I think the next step in improving gyro rotors will be to make them from carbon fiber.... I think that is where the next improvement will come from, prolly shorter rotors with wider chord, carbon fiber, stiff as (like rigid, but still teetering).... just my thoughts

Too cool !

DONE!!
Just the ticket .... happening as we speak .... testing this week @ Yass!!!!

So, you and that devil Des talking working on those top secret blades?

Those guys are busy this week, must be graduating a class or something. Same pilots different shoot em up crew today. Skydivers in the background. The light was quite dramatic today. Larry and I had a fun flight earlier. Really enjoying hanging out at KDED.

next time ya see them tell them about my pad and to feel free to drop in sometime, Cindi would love to see them, she use to work on blackhawks and ah-64's in the army.

Hey, tim, I flew over your house - nice airboat

oh man hate we missed it, the lady that gave Cindi her kidney is visiting with us and we took her to blue springs today to see the manatees, so you could see the boat from the air pretty good huh? I am hopeing to take it out wekend after next for it's first run. I need to get me a life jacket. and there is a few things I want to do to it.
I have a front seat that came with it, so I want to install it sometime soon.

Here's the Blackhawk video from Monday

Sure ...rub it in!

Lofty, you are a bit slow mate, look at the neat camera on the front of the BH while they weren't looking you could have just gone and 'borrowed it'

That looks like a bit better quality than chinese ones

Don't think I never thought about it.