Piasecki Helistat crash - GIF

Piasecki Helistat crash on 1 July 1986.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...746#post159695
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...646#post174402
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...835#post167608
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...946#post210446
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...906#post190921

Ya, they were building Chevettes and Celebrities around then too.

There is more information HERE

I find this line from the article to be most profound, " Criticism has been expressed of the structural qualities and stress analysis of this framework." :smash: DUH!!

Looks like something built in a high school welding shop.

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Originally Posted by tlnixon

Looks like something built in a high school welding shop.

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I would be a little offended by that, but yes I have seem some ugly stuff done in high school. But I would have never let that mess out of my classroom!!! It is difficult to believe that thing was built by a legit contractor.

Sorry, no offense intended. One would think that there would have been a working prototype made before they went to the expense of building a real one. I would imagine they lost 4 pilots and whomever else was onboard when it went down as well. Perhaps it was welded with the $29.95 buzz-box welders that used to be advertised in Popular Mechanics decades ago...