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Topic: Photo of the week 807 (April 11, 2020)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3413
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-11-2020 03:15 AM
   
 Astronaut Ed Gibson reduced a Bell 47 helicopter to only its nameplate (his own words) during a landing in a sticky mud flat north of Houston, Texas, on August 2, 1969. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6001
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-11-2020 05:16 AM
Single engine, single rotor helicopter, our 1970s Alouette IIs had a single Gas turbine engine a bit more powerful.A good landing is one you can walk away from. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-11-2020 07:30 AM
I guess back in 1969 "scientist" astronauts were practicing for possible lunar landing missions. |
Henry Heatherbank
Member Posts: 250
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 04-11-2020 07:42 AM
Ed Gibson may have blown any chance of an LMP slot right then and there!
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2980
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-11-2020 08:05 AM
For NASA's original scientist-astronauts during the 1960's, it was a requirement to undergo nearly a year-long undergraduate pilot training program at Williams AFB in Arizona. The flight training started with small propeller planes, next up were small jets, and concluding with the supersonic T-38.In Gibson's case, however, he also trained in flying Navy helicopters as well before leaving Williams AFB. |
Larry McGlynn
Member Posts: 1267
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 04-11-2020 12:10 PM
Ken, where did Ed go for the next class on landing? |
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