QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Sep 27 2012, 08:22 AM)
Wow. Greg that is incredible !!
Woah.. I guess you guys must have been strapped to the basket ?
Well, we had a harness and strap so that if we fell out we would only be hanging about 5 feet below the basket. But the same force that made the basket trail at an angle kept up stuck in position so we wern't going anywhere.
QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Sep 27 2012, 08:22 AM)
I'm certainly interested in hearing more of your stories Greg !
Here is a picture from another project I was involved in.
Prudhoe Bay in Alaska is active in the oil industry. They had a problem getting supplies in the spring and fall. With the bay being half iced over they couldn't supply by ship and until the ice became solid they couldn't bring supplies on top of the ice. So Boeing built a hover-barge. The barge could hover over broken surfaces but it couldn't propel itself over the ice. Someone thought of towing it with a helicopter so we gave it a try for a season. The helicopter in the picture is pulling the barge (if I remember correctly, at around 7 knots). It would stay in this position for around 4 hours and then would have to go get more fuel.
It worked without problem but I gather it wasn't practical sense we only did it one year.
My part in the job was minor but the helicopter involved, 84CH, was one that I had worked on for months (wiring radios and instruments).
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