Tag Archives: firefighting

Helicopter blind spot

This video shows that even helicopters have blind spots too and sometimes funny things happen when you least expect it. Check out this firefighting pilot who accidentally hits a truck with his bucket spreading his load all over.

K-MAX aerial truck

Produced by Kaman, the K-Max or K-1200 is an American helicopter with intermeshing rotors optimized for external load operations. Because the K-Max does not have a tail rotor, all the power goes directly to the rotors and so this little bugger can take off with almost 3 tons of payload. Not a speedy devil, but […]