Piasecki PA97 Helistat Accident Crash - helicopter helium blimp hybrid air vehicle heavy lift
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Uploaded by gmcjetpilot on May 29, 2009
The Piasecki PA-97 Helistat was an American experimental heavy-lift aircraft, built by Piasecki by fastening four obsolete helicopters to a framework beneath a helium blimp.
The PA-97 was built under a 1980 U.S. Navy contract for the Forest Service to demonstrate a heavy vertical air lifter for harvesting timber from inaccessible terrain. The single demonstrator used a Navy ZPG-2W blimp and four H-34J helicopters. The combination of a large blimp with powered lift made the 343 feet (104.57 m) long helistat the largest dynamic lift aircraft in the world.
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Everything that has to do with helicopters should be taken more seriously
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Menuda chatarra voladora y menuda masacre ha hecho en 5min..
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You know, what they could've done to make this thing better was to just make it from scratch instead of use spare parts from other aircraft.
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I'm glad my $40 million tax dollars was wasted this way. Oh no the humanity LOL!!!
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American engineering for ya... xD
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Oh no the humanity! lol
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Obviously, this wasn't designed for military use. This was just an attempt to clear logs faster. But the way these helicopters were positioned and attached was obviously not something I was happy with.
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My brother and dad was there when that happened.
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Nigga technology.
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Epic Fail.
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That's not a freak disaster, that's bad engineering.
randomgamer8201 3 months ago 17
Geezus. I could design a better light than air, aircraft than that. Seriously...how the hell did they get permission to fly that?!
casadejoey 3 months ago 12