Corvette ZR1 v Apache attach helo, frightening end.

[Graham]

I came across this while browsing.
It is the familiar Corvette ZR1, in a speed test with an AH-1 Super Cobra helicopter.
It follows the format that the car on the ground does a square circuit, turns around, and does the square circuit back again.

Mean while the Super Cobra is doing the same circuit, but 50 meters above the car.

It's not a case of who wins,,,,,,,,,,,,,, watch the end.

Gra.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzgzMjA2NDA4.html

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f70_1333 ... comments=1

 

[nivapilot]

Ooooops.

 

[Gary Stockton]

Wow - talk about target fixation!! Pretty extreme stuff!

Cheers

 

[SimonD]

A wing-over at that height carries risks you can see the chopper start sliding towards the ground while turning. Wrong speed means a big drop in height. I've been in choppers doing wing-overs and it is a buzz. You need to have turned further before descending than this guy was. However when i was in the army we had a new pilot attempt one at insufficient height and he speared into the ground. The transmission came through the roof and hit him in the back.

 

[LandCruiser1978]

OH MY GOD
Any idea if anyone died?

 

[Olazz]

Even for a highly experienced and "gung- ho" pilot, he was well outside the envelope several times.. he had escaped once on the lap already!

 

[Graham]

At 4 min 49 sec, the camera pans right.
Then the next shot looks like the pilot, wiping his glasses?

Did he survive?

Gra.

 

[SimonD]

Pilot and Nav walked away http://www.helihub.com/2012/03/01/01-mar-12-bell-ah-1-coolidge-us-arizona/

 

[Graham]

Amazing,
Well I guess the fact the 2 of them walked away must say some thing for the integrity of the cockpit.
It looks like they dropped a good 25 meters.
I thing that must have hurt on the restraint straps, a fair old bone jarring experience.
No fire also?
I guess a special fuel cell, with inert gas flooding?

Gra.

 

[Crispin]

Pilot and Nav walked away http://www.helihub.com/2012/03/01/01-mar-12-bell-ah-1-coolidge-us-arizona/

I would b1tch slap the pilot if I was the nav.

 

[wobbly]

Looks like he's one of them old 'Nam vets....whats the betting his nickname is '8-ball'?

 

[wobbly]

Wonder if it affects his car insurance......any accidents in the last 5 years?