Aircrane: Extreme Helicopter

[Realbigtaco]

Sorry if this has been posted, but tonight @ 8pm on NatGeo they have a show about the Air-Crane, and it looks like half of it is on the firefighting crane, looks pretty sweet.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/man-made/all/Videos/07192_00#tab-Overview

[phantomphan1974]

I am going to try and catch this one!  THANKS!!!

[kick Z tail out]

Good lookin' out Chris.  And yep... looks like the show basically follows Erickson for the entire show.

[phantomphan1974]

It was a really great show and gave a lot of info I did not know.   The sea snorkel is cool!!!

[Realbigtaco]

Funny thing is that I drove up the I-15 between Vegas and St. George, Utah about 2 weeks ago and about 20-30 minutes outside of Vegas was these two huge radio towers.  They were freaking tall!!  I researched it a little when i got back on Wikipedia, and found out a little information on them.  Then i watched that show, and there you go.  Talk about your hazard pay!

Did you see the mechanic who got to go inspect the engines while the blades were running?!?!?  I mean i know you have to check it with the fluids going, but that would take some balls to do that!

Anyways cool program, glad i found it.

[phantomphan1974]

They did a check like that when I took shots of the Hiller Transport Crane and they climbed up and did the same thing.