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Don't see one of these every day

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pilottj

Blues is Life


Suprised this rotor design wasn't seen more often. As far as I have heard the HH-43's young sibling, the K-Max is quite a fine workhorse
 
Man, that is one scary looking ride! Did you see the second one start to wobble momentarily as the blades were spooling up? Watch the pilots helmet.



Bill
 
When I was on my last Med cruise in the Navy we had a visit from the Russian Navy and they landed a helo on our deck that had a similar rotor set up.
 
Technically the Russkie KA-25/32 have co-axial rotors. Two counter rotating rotors on one shaft, one above the other.
 
"Pedro" was designed strictly as a fire fighting/rescue helicopter.
The crews were very fond of them:
http://users.acninc.net/padipaul/Pedronews/home.htm

EDIT: Love the classic helicopter sound of those, great find on the videos!

Last one I saw operating in person, was fighting fires in Idaho in 89.
It was very stable in flight and lifted a lot of water.
They were using a Bambi Bucket on that one.

I had a Testors scale model kit of one, as a kid. One of my favorites.
 
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