Miscellaneous Stuff

Here you find some things that may or may not pertain to RotorWay only but we thought we'd share with you anyway. The young fellow reading the book is John and Charmienne Pohlman's son.

The pics of the bees in and on the ship were from Ken Saumure in California.  Can you imagine the thrill of being inside that ship with all those bees attacking your helicopter with no place to go lol.

       

Heres Ken actual post of what happened

We were actually hovering for quite a while - about 10 to 15 minutes, checking a few gauges, tinkering, you know.  Anyway, a swarm of honey bees, along with the Queen, were mobile, coming up from behind me.  Someone actually saw the swarm coming which resembled black soot (particulate) from a freshly started diesel truck (they didn't know what it was so they didn't warn me).  Anyway, the Queen flew into the main rotor system, being instantly smooshed and spread her scent all over the hovering machine.  The rest of the thousands of bees just followed suit.  I had no idea as to what was going on until I noticed that for no apparent reason, it was losing power - and quickly!  At first I thought that there was a problem with the engine: I needed full throttle and max pitch just to hover (solo with ½ fuel).  I decided to set it down on the ramp.  When I reduced the throttle after landing, the bees started coming into the cabin!  Yikes!  I unbelted, shut it down and left the helicopter.  What a site to see!  I ran to the hangar and, surprisingly, none of the bees followed me.  They just stuck it out with the helo (queen scent).  After the blades stopped, they were still coming.  Those photos were taken long after, when most of the bees were "smoked off".  The rest I killed with bug spray.  It took us about 2 hours to clean the helicopter the next day.  Talk about an experience!!!

Ken

 

I've no idea if its correct but the story that was posted along with this picture was it was a ship being used in 2004 in Afghanistan.  It seems like we have seen this ship before someplace on the web and whether its true or not it sure is a looker.  I for one would sure hate to see from the business end coming at me lol.

 

Pretty kewl picture someone made up lol.

Rumor is who ever did it used the wrong kinda fish tho, seems that type of shark wouldn't be caught dead in San Franscico Bay but ya gotta admit its a pretty awesome picture.

 

 

Our USA guys hard at work!

 

 

 

 

Yeah I know it aint a helicopter but look at the cabin on this ship, It sure looks like the front of a Rotorway to me.

 

Guess who?

 

This Enstrom is exactly what Donna
and I hope to own one day, its one beautiful ship.

The Hughes in the pic was a restoration
and was really something to see.

 

Jag Helicopter

This is a proposed kit helicopter that cost alot of folks alot of money and from what I know never made it off the ground.

The fellow that came up with this ship was a fellow named Joe Rinke who hailed from somewhere around the Detroit Metro area in Michigan.  In a conversation I had with his mother at Sun n Fun one year, 2000 I think, she told me it was a dream he had every sense he was a child and he worked very hard to make a go of it.  In the end to my knowledge the company went bankrupt and closed up.  I've no idea if any of the investors every got any moneys back or what ever happened to the ship, its molds or other prototypes that may have existed, It just faded out of existence.  Just prior to its demise I think in late 2002,  there was a rumor that it actually got off the ground in a demo flight/hover but as of Oct 2004 we never did run across anyone that actually saw it.  Joe was a real stickler about impressing folks and if it did in fact actually fly someone somewhere has a movie of it.

November 1st 2004

I saw a link on the RotorwayFun/MSN site a friend had posted for Rinkie Areo Space and It looks like the Jag helicopter as well as Joe Rinke is alive and doing well and his JAG helicopter has a new home in the military.

rinke-aerospace.com

Pretty sure this is a Zeus kit helicopter

These pics are Compliments of Larry Wells, aka The Gator

Larry has been flying power lines with his hiller helicopter for a bit and sent me these pics showing the type of terrain he flies over on a daily basis.  I'd say he'd be a pretty good teacher of what to do and what not to do around power lines not to mention rough terrain.  This guy has some biggins for sure.  Can you imagine doing what he does and have an engine problem?  I can't imagine a good outcome to it.

How would YOU like to be in this situation hovering along at 5 knots or less?

 

Miscellaneous_Helicopter_Videos

Helicopter_Crash_Pics_and_Videos

Just a few we've run across and collected from the Internet

Helicopter_Wav_files

Yeah! yeah! yeah!

I know these ain't  helicopters but they were just to kewl not to put here lol
These are supposed to be actual photos of aircraft breaking the sound barrier. 

This phenomenon only happens at the instant an 
aircraft breaks the sound barrier 
and it literally appears like the aircraft goes through a wall.  
I hope you find these pictures as fascinating as I do. 
 
WOW 

A few jokes for ya's
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.

Let me urge you to look out the right window. In a
few minutes you will see the Grand Canyon, or the
Eiffel Tower, or something. Don't look out the left
window. In fact, please pull the window shades on
the left side of the airplane closed without looking
out. By the way, we are offering unlimited liquor
service to the passengers at no cost for the
remainder of the flight. 

In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center reported receiving a
request for clearance to FL 60 (60,000ft). The incredulous controller, with
some disdain in his voice, asked, "How do you plan to get up to 60,000 feet?
The pilot (obviously a sled driver), responded, "We don't plan to go up
to it, we plan to go down to it." He was cleared.

The pilot was sitting in his seat and pulled out a .38 revolver. He placed
it on top of the instrument panel, and then asked the navigator, Do you
know what I use this for?"
The navigator replied timidly, "No, what's it for?" The pilot responded, "I
use this on navigators who get me lost!" The navigator proceeded to pull
out a 45 and place it on his chart table.
The pilot asked, "What's that for?" "To be honest sir," the navigator
replied, "I'll know we're lost before you will."

More tower chatter: Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6
miles!" Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"

One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of
the runway while a MD80 landed The MD80 landed, rolled out, turned around,
and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some quick-witted comedian in the MD80
crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it
all by yourself?" Our hero the Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by,
came back with: "I made it out of MD80 parts. Another landing like that and I'll
have enough parts for another one."

There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing
because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked." Air Traffic Control
told the fighter jock that he was number two behind a B-52 that had one engine shut
down. "Ah," the pilot remarked, "the dreaded seven-engine approach."

A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting
to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known
position?" Student: "When I was number one for takeoff."

Taxiing down the tarmac, the 757 abruptly stopped, turned around and
returned to the gate. After an hour-long wait, it finally took off. A
concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, "What was the problem?"
"The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine," explained the
flight attendant," and it took us a while to find a new pilot."

"Flight 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 degrees." "But Center, we
are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?" "Sir, have you
ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?"

In his book, Sled Driver, SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul writes: "I'll
always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt
(my back-seater) and I were screaming across Southern California
13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other
aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace. Though they didn't really
control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope.
I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its ground speed." "90 knots"
Center replied. "Moments later, a Twin Beech required the same." "120
knots,"  Center answered. We weren't the only ones proud of our ground speed that
day as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, 'Ah, Center, Dusty 52
requests ground speed readout.' There was a slight pause, then the response,
"525 knots on the ground, Dusty."  "Another silent pause. As I was thinking to
myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio
transmission coming from my back-seater. It was at that precise moment
I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison.
" "Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?"
There was a longer than normal pause .... "Aspen, I show 1,742 knots"
No further inquiries were heard on that frequency.

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