Formation Flying...

[Ironclad]

amazing what can be done when the resources are available to you.

and a lot of air being moved!

 

 

http://lightandflight.com/formation2.wmv

[Freefall]

holy crap thats alot of helicopters. Sweet video.

 

Anyone actually count them all?

 

I wish I could hear the sound that makes

[cap]

The 159th should have about 131 a/c, so those shown would only a small part of the Brigade.

[xrkyle]

The 159th should have about 131 a/c, so those shown would only a small part of the Brigade.

 

I counted 10 UH-60s and 19 CH-47s. The 60s are ~$2800/hour and the 47s are ~$6800 (according to an army document I found online). So that little exercise is costing the US taxpayers just over $150,000/hour.

 

Good thing they have such a large tax base!

[Rotorboy2]

Geez, not very good 'formation'.

 

OK, I'm kidding. That is alot of iron, indeed.

[cap]

xrkyle ---------that Brigrade would be made-up of Lights, Mediums and Heavy Lifts and you are only counting part of the Heavy Lifts. Cost per hour? Don't waste your time "going there". Once upon a time I served in that military and the artillery would pound away all day many times, with very few intermissions. The cost for EACH shell fired..........$650 every time the trigger was pulled. So don't even think about going near a battlefield with an Accountant.....with us or the Americans because money means absolutely nothing in such an enviroment.

[Cole]

Most likely flying Government officials to a global warming summit

[rookie101]

HOOO F***ING RAAHH! That got my blood absolutley pumping!! The icing on the cakewould've been a formation of Apaches or Cobras takin' up the rear :punk: :up: :punk: :up:

[transquebecniece]

ALWAYS especially awesome to see ANY unit of the Army's 101st Airborne, here Eagle Thunder. What a proud lineage these bad boys have. Made my morning.

 

(Cole: Not hoo f rah. More appropro: "Screaming Eagles, say what!" )

[transquebecniece]

Sorry, Cole. Meant to say I don't think they host global-warming summits between Baghdad and Mosul. Last comment was for Rook. Pffft.