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Check Out This Huge Remote-Controlled MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter – You’d Swear It Was Real


Check Out This Huge Remote-Controlled MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter – You’d Swear It Was Real

In a past life, I was an Army helicopter technician, and I worked closely with other military branches, units, and helicopter crews from other countries. Out of all of the stories I gained in those nine years, the United States Air Force is directly responsible for two of the top five most horrifying near-misses I ever experienced, and an MH-53 Pave Low was directly responsible for one. Driving up and down an airstrip one night to check on some of my soldiers with another guy in the passenger seat in blackout mode (no lights on at all), we nearly had one of these six-bladed, 32,000+ pound flying monstrosities land on top of us. The only reason I get to write now instead of being the sideshow attraction called The Human Pancake is because the gale force wind from the rotor disc freaked out my passenger, who started screaming “FLOOR IT!” in pure panic mode.

Which brings me to this video: the actual scale of this remote-controlled MH-53 isn’t explained except “giant scale”, but when you browse through YouTube, you tend to see a lot of these large-by-huge scale duplications of flying aircraft. Who thinks this stuff up? You can’t go to a store and just by a twelve-foot long R/C MH-53 and the turbines for the engine. Can you? And besides freak out the paranoid guy who lives down the block, what else are you going to do? Trim your juniper bushes at a hover? Use the tail rotor as a rather unsafe Salad Shooter? Maybe I’m being too hard on the concept…it is really cool to see the level of detail these modelers put into these creations.


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