A Helicopter in my street

[AaronSmith0]

Like a boss!



[schifty1]

It's real. if you look closely in the background, all of the bushes are being blown by the propeller downdraft.

[TheCallofdutymwf]

really lookn at how slow the blades are moving

[PrivatePeterson]

i love how fast the rotors are spinning xDDD

[MrDenizen]

I don't doubt this clip is real, but why weren't any people out in the street? If a helicopter landed in the streets where I live, there'd be thousands of people out to watch (and possibly try to rob it).

ALso, very nice flying from the chopper pilot.

[roelsc]

@MrDenizen It's a very quiet street in a small town and there were some people, but we were all gently but firmly asked to stand back behind the trees on the right.

[roelsc]

@MrDenizen It's a very quiet street in a small town and there were some people, but we were all gently but firmly asked to stand back behind the trees on the right.

[nexus1g]

@MrDenizen Good lord, you live in Detroit or something? I can't think of any place that would be that bad as to land a medical emergency helicopter only to bring the patient back to find your chopper on cinder blocks with the skids missing.

[MrDenizen]

@nexus1g - welcome to British humour...

[nexus1g]

@MrDenizen It defeats me when I counter humor with humor, and people tell me they were just being humorous thinking that I missed something when they in fact missed something.

[MrDenizen]

@nexus1g - try adding smileys.. if I can't see your face, then I miss important facial expressions that would tell me you were being humorous. Welcome to the internet brah ;)

[nexus1g]

@MrDenizen Oh like the smilies you included in your original humorous post! Oh wait...

[nexus1g]

@MrDenizen I personally thought the words themselves would have pointed to the humor intended. After all, one of the first questions one should ask is, "What exactly is a thief going to do with a pair of helicopter skids?" Or at least get the humorous image of a couple of befuddled EMT reviewing their situation.

[paopaowellwell]

please use an undate photoshop that much better :")

[Vectorr4Emperor]

Not fake, these are the new low carbon emission Helis.

[MrWiLDAPEMAN]

fake look at the speed of the rotor

[jaymzedge1]

@MrWiLDAPEMAN Sorry wrong again...do a little research and you will find that different cameras have different frame rates. That being said, the blades on the helo are not spinning as fast as most people would think. The main rotor blades on a 206 Jet Ranger only spin at about 250 rpm. That along with a good camera capturing video of a helo in motion can make the blades look as if they are standing still or even going backwards.

[nexus1g]

@MrWiLDAPEMAN It's called a stroboscopic effect. In short, if the rotors turn 29 rotations a second and the camera captures 29 frames per second, it will always capture an image of the rotor blades at exactly the same position in each frame giving them the impression of not moving. An effect like this also requires fast exposure, otherwise it would just be a blur.

[scubadivernija]

Its a ghost ball!!!!!!!

[daandebest96]

some people watched too much bullshit and believed it, this is real and they don't believe this...

[michaeldublg]

LOL .. OMG !!! THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR HAVING TO EXPLAN THIS VIDEO TO ANYBODY OVER THE AGE OF 10 TO 19 YEARS OLD.

AND ANYBODY OVER THE AGE OF 10 TO 19 NOT KNOWING THE PHYSICS BEHIND THE OPTICAL ILLUSION INVOLVING THE MAIN ROTORS ARE PROBABLY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THAT BERAK HUSEIN GUY. LOL ...

[peterawsome]

holy fuc that is amazing piloting, i wud shit myself if i had to do that

[aronplas5]

wtf happens with the main rotors they dont spin??

[roelsc]

@aronplas5 camera shoots with not enough frames per second to register the real movement. It's the same effect you have when you film a car and the wheels look like they are going backwards.

[MovieMad007]

@roelsc In a way that is correct but not entirely. You are right about the car wheel perspective too. Its to do with light velocity/frequency. Light travels at 188,000 m/p/sec and our eyes are used to seeing things either turned on or off. So the light waves is either straight up and across whereas the blades are going at a speed which is exremely fast (near the speed of sound) but our eyes cannot register it so it appears to be doing strange things like if you watch propellers on an aircraft

[MovieMad007]

they appear to go in the opposite direction once they have reached total power, but we know that they in reality cannot be changing direction. So if we look at the light waves from the chopper blades they would be in a regular wave -form.

[Elitepoosniff]

@aronplas5 Are you an idiot ?

[dirtbikekid354]

@aronplas5 the camera cant pickup the speed

[NWViewer1]

@aronplas5 It's called strobing. It has to do with the cameras frame rate synchronized with the props rotation.

[Grunt2121]

I love it how the blades spine so fast but it looks like there moving so slow on camra.

[NLStacks2k10]

Looks real to me and i know fake when i see it.

[pavlos999]

That is some good flying!

[fsxolliefsx]

deifinatly fake, look at the scale. its only a few metres away from the car and looks about the same size, and in real life thats a fairly large helo. no personel, shadow looks aver so slightly artifical, and the ambulance service don't operate that helo, or painted in bright green. and pilots are not allowed to land that close to trees, anyway its in a fairly empty estate, with roads, an ambulance would usually respond to a call like that

[roelsc]

It's amazing how some people think they know everyting better, can explain everything and see conspiracy everywhere, while the truth is staring them in the face. Maybe you should check out the meaning of the word perspective. To be honest, I wish I could create this out of nothing, I guess I'd be rich by now.

Google Thames Valley Air Ambulance and you will see that it's the same machine.

[fsxolliefsx]

@roelsc I feel like a complete idiot. Sorry for ridiculous ignorance and stupidity- sort of just blurted that out. Doesn't look too fake now you mention it, just unlikely. Sorry *offers virtual hand for handshake* Great piloting, then. Very great indeed.

[roelsc]

@fsxolliefsx Accepted!

[myadder2]

@fsxolliefsx Research this registration: G-TVAM. Hampshire and Isle of Wight air ambulance, a Bolkow 105, just as in the video. I believe that it once had more green in the livery. The number plate on the car is British, tallying with the location.

^^^^^

I just wrote this out before realising that you'd changed your mind in the post above haha...but still, theres your helo :)

[michaeldublg]

@fsxolliefsx you don't really think that was a toy helicopter do you ?!? LOL .

[inagod]

its real,lucky to have caught it.someone was very ill.

[helipassion]

Looks real to me.

I don't think it's fake.

[b1cc2]

This is totally fake. Everything's out of scale.

[roelsc]

To all who think this is fake, I really wish I could manipulate video in such a way. I'd be very rich right now working in some special effects studio.

[svtcobra271]

Its not fake, the camera was shooting at a higher fps, which is why you can see the blades. There is another video on youtube called "how can this helicopter fly" or something along those lines, which explains why you can see the rotors moving like that.

[Robert1983USA]

Anybody can tell you are dumb

[we5leyz]

You are a dumbass

[FrodeFlodhest]

BK-105 <3 =)

[sdrfgvrfgvsfravgdsvS]

*BO-105

[FrodeFlodhest]

yup =)

[lpmv]

fake ?

[captivemrhanky]

I don't see any other emergency personnel....

[sdrfgvrfgvsfravgdsvS]

wow is a bolkow ina street!!!

[wattc002]

is that at castle hill in mmaidenhead?

[roelsc]

Yup

[wattc002]

i live in furze platt area lol

[wayafterthispinished]

that was awesome that proves that you can use a heli just as good as a car

[blkbishop112]

Why?

[roelsc]

It's an ambulance copter. There was an emergency in the street.