Many moons ago I worked at Mount Pleasant Airport, Falklands. Occasionally RAF pilots would fly up and down the runway at ~500 feet in a Lynx helicopter. Some of the manoeuvres looked very, very dodgy. They could almost pull off a full loop. It looked bloody terrifying.
Could be when he's not faced with barrages of people wanting a piece of him.... (just to give a bit of balance)
Exactly. He was cool as a cucumber. He asked me what I did for a living and when I told I was a gas turbine tech he was genuinely interested.
Ironic i used to work for a Gas Turbine design consultancy.... [20 years man and boy] - IT department....
Guy’s personality and the way he acts reminds me very much of my youngest son who has Asperger’s (now just lumped in with ASD) and although he’s one of the loveliest people you could ever meet, he can be very socially awkward to the point of rudeness if he’s out of his comfort zone or feels overstimulated. I also imagine that if you’ve just caned it around the TT course at 130mph+ average, only millimetres away from death (or are about to do so) then you might not be particularly receptive to randoms approaching you to make inane small talk or asking for a selfie.
Don't give a monkeys about his driving ban. I've had 9 points on my license myself. We have all done it. Like him or not, he is an entertaining character.
You can loop a Lynx quite easily as it has a rigid rotor head (like a Hughes 500 and several others). Try that in a helo with an articulated head and you'll pushing up the daisies in no time!
Really? I didn’t know that. And I thought I knew everything… The Navy were knocking about down there for sure. I guess it was the Navy. Rumour at the time had it that they were impressing military ladies with pretty impressive helicopter rides. Chicks were in very short supply down there. Game on….
I doubt it. I think he’d have been about 8 at time. It was ~1990… They were still tearing about in Phantom f4’s.
It looked bloody terrifying. Wrong even. Planes yes, they’re better shaped for such fuckery. But not helicopters- too much aerodynamics going on
