Thursday, August 28, 2008

We send Linda to fly a Black Hawk helicopter, Ok fly in a Black Hawk but still very cool...

" When you saw these three black hawks coming in to land on corporate hill at Eastern Creek Raceway it was really quite spectacular, they really are the jet fighter of helicopters. The video below shows them as they came over us for the first time...


Once we were strapped in it was pretty scary as you are facing straight out the door, and YES the doors are open!













We Left Eastern creek and headed for the city, the pic below shows the other two hawks as we all lifted off.












The views were simply amazing, the fact that you were looking straight out of an open door on a black hawk just charged the adrenalin into the breath taking views.

It also added another dimension to the flight with having another two black hawks flying in formation with us...an amazing sight, no doubt.

Once we hit the city there was a sense of privilege as it was obvious that very few people could say that they had looked down on some of the most prominent and world renowned landmarks hovering at 1,500ft in a black hawk!















We continued out to Manly and back over Bondi Beach which was quite spectacular as the pilot made some wide sweeping bank turns giving us a view second to none.














On the return journey we all thought that the trip had been as good as you could hope for but just when we thought it was over the three hawks rapidly split up and we went into some reasonably intense what you might call mild aerobatic maneuvers, there were some definite G-forces at play, the helicopter would bank so far in the turn that you were literaly at a 90 degree angle, somehow I managed to get this photo while we were at full bank, as you can see we were looking directly at the ground and literally hanging from our harnesses, unreal! So that's my review hope it paints the picture."















We would love to offer you the exact same experience however this was a one off made possible by the great team of military professionals that fly and crew these unbelievable machines as well as the facilitators of our world famous V8 drive Days...which you can view at the below links

V8 Race Day (5-laps), Sydney - NSW
V8 Race Day (5-laps), Melbourne - VIC
V8 Race Day (7-laps), Perth - WA
V8 Race Day (4-laps), Adelaide - SA

But what we can offer you which is just as unreal in its own right is a wide selection of helicopter scenic flights and the opportunity (with no prior experience) to fly one yourself, don't worry you're have a qualified instructor next to you.

You can view all the options right here on FreemanX

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