Ride the Red Bull Aerobatic, Flipping Helicopter with Marcus Leshock!

The uncut, raw video - WGN-TV Feature Reporter Marcus Leshock rides along with Chuck "Malibu" Aaron, the first FAA licensed aerobatic helicopter pilot, on board the Red Bull Helicopter. It's modified to allow it to do flips. barrel rolls, and all kinds of stomach-turning fancy maneuvers.

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[Vipersniper11]

I saw one of these things at the air show in CHicago

[mjleshock]

That's where I rode this one. A few days before the show. It was awesome.

[Black0raz0r]

barrel rolls with helicopters are freakin awesome D:

[Colt357B]

"I could get you sick, but i don't wanna do that"

[Colt357B]

So goddamn impressive, what a pilot! What helicopter is that by the way

[TheFr3sh1]

@0MoTheG Interesting, never heard of anything like that. Looks like the Boom and rotor is the same as a normal heli, to me. Wouldn't that limit the maneuverability of the helicopter significantly to change the CG for clearance?

I doubt it maybe you know something I don't though? (facts)

[TheFr3sh1]

@0MoTheG Wait so you do know something about helicopters? I am really confused.

Still have no idea what you talking about though. Is it an assumption that that would happen or fact

[0MoTheG]

@TheFr3sh1 "your second paraghraph(3 axis, pitch-swing-rotation)"

There are various instable flight modes. One being a {nose up, roll and turn right, nose down, roll left, repeat } swinging that one gets into when giving hard input in a hover. You give forward cyclic and add collective, the nose goes down, but then the body swings forward and you get into the above movement.

[TheFr3sh1]

@0MoTheG Blade pitch is called collective - it changes all of the blades at the same time. The cyclic works by changing blade pitch as well. The blades constantly change pitch during rotation to make the rotor "disc(what you see when they spin fast" tilt. Aft cyclic gives the effect I think you are talking about, where there is more lift on the front of the disc.

I don't understand your second paraghraph(3 axis, pitch-swing-rotation).

I think they spin faster actually

[TheFr3sh1]

@0MoTheG Thats not how it works they are close though lol