Kompress hard landing

[Flyingmonk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS3bVqcq_0&search=helicopter

Looks like a two seater (tandem) CH-7 Kompress. Anyone with details on
this flight?

Monk

[Gig 601XL Builder]

"Flyingmonk" > wrote in message
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS3bVqcq_0&search=helicopter
>
> Looks like a two seater (tandem) CH-7 Kompress. Anyone with details on
> this flight?
>
> Monk
>

I am impressed the guy walked away from it.

[J.Kahn]

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
> "Flyingmonk" > wrote in message
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>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS3bVqcq_0&search=helicopter
>>
>>Looks like a two seater (tandem) CH-7 Kompress. Anyone with details on
>>this flight?
>>
>>Monk
>>
>
>
> I am impressed the guy walked away from it.
>
>
It was probably unwise to let him walk. There would have been a very
good chance of a spinal injury that would've been made much worse by
letting him walk. Like Hoover's accident when he got a fractured spine
which he didn't discover till much later.

[Gig 601XL Builder]

"J.Kahn" > wrote in message
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> Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
>> "Flyingmonk" > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>>
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS3bVqcq_0&search=helicopter
>>>
>>>Looks like a two seater (tandem) CH-7 Kompress. Anyone with details on
>>>this flight?
>>>
>>>Monk
>>>
>>
>>
>> I am impressed the guy walked away from it.
> It was probably unwise to let him walk. There would have been a very good
> chance of a spinal injury that would've been made much worse by letting
> him walk. Like Hoover's accident when he got a fractured spine which he
> didn't discover till much later.

You are right. What impressed me is that he wasn't killed immediately. The
airframe in that thing must be fairly hardy. Though after looking at it a
second time I think he was ejected from the aircraft there at the end.

[Bill Chernoff]

>
> You are right. What impressed me is that he wasn't killed immediately. The
> airframe in that thing must be fairly hardy. Though after looking at it a
> second time I think he was ejected from the aircraft there at the end.
>
>
Also, on the Kompress, the instrument panel is between the pilot's legs.
Hitting that probably kept him from getting impaled on the cyclic, though...