Audi Pulled from Frozen Alaska Lake By KMAX Helicopter. 4k 

Ventilation hole on the trunk

You can tell this Rich Rebuilds, he is usually buying such cars

Clean, 1 owner, ran when parked. Price is firm, I know what I have!

how much?

Lies! It obviously can go anywhere (including in the air)

Hahaha!

They chose to remove it. They didn't have to remove it. The impact to the environment would have been minimal and they could have gotten in later when the lake isn't frozen.

Surely the pollution from both the helicopters is more than sinking that Pos Audi to the bottom of the lake.

@@joshgreaves9934 What a load of BS.

Love all the comments! The reason is the Audi was at the head if the Kenai river, probably the largest recreational fishery in Alaska. It is also in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The fishery brings in 10s of thousands of people every summer and this area is at the headwaters of the Kenai and is huge for boating and fishing. It was a major hazard and needed to be removed as fast as possible. I believe insurance paid for the recovery for the most part.

@@KrisDeVo what insurance company just curious

Golden 🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌

I bet the insurance company wouldn't pay until he got that car out

@@jettelo The EPA fines are assessed daily, so it’s best to catch it before it goes to the bottom and you have to bring in an under water cold water dive team.

@@JimsEquipmentShedbeing a HVAC man you don't have to tell me

Apple maps, not GPS

This is how they have fun..priceless

You know the car owner got dropped by the insurance company for this. And because of this, no other insurance company will take him/her......

@@heyrod59 Its not a surpise is it. Pure stupidity deserves the contempt it warrants.

@@thecovidprisoner you said it!! I thought to myself for maybe a fraction of a second as to how or why this vehicle ended up in it's watery parking spot, then I saw the type of car it is. An Audi that happens to be a sporty fun little car that is AWD with a turbo. AWD or All Wheel Drive if anyone didn't know, now you do! LoL all wheel drive and ice or frozen lake equals a perfect spot to slide around and not have to worry about ramming into curbs or light poles or people! Then the moment you realize you're on thin ice, or you where on thin ice I should say!! LoL lucky the water was very sallow there or that could have been a completely different kind of a recovery..

@@firstnamelastnameisallowed7943 Ahhh yes posh car idiots sliding around like in adverts or Bond movie. Totally been sold the dream until.....🌊🚕❄lesson served ice cold 😁

Thanks!

When brand new! I’m sure

The fine for leaving it in the lake is probably more than the helo removal and car combined

some of the costs are weighted against the environmental aspect

@@ranman to be hoped

It has to be removed to prevent any pollution if it rots out.

Recently deep cleaned.

15 20k recovery

Thank you!

Tep its how it maneuvers with no tail rotor

@@daleisatimpactms No, that's not right. Most helicopters this size require hydraulically boosted controls to alter the blade pitch during rotation. This alteration of the blade pitch at certain parts of the rotor arc causes asymmetric lift, which is how the helicopter moves in one direction or another. The K-Max, having two rotors, you alter the cyclic pitch of each rotor independently. Both rotors lifting on the left, the helicopter moves to the right. Both lifting at the back, the helicopter moves forward. One lifting at the front, one lifting at the back, the helicopter yaws (rotates in place). That's a very simplistic explanation of how it flies, but is the reason why it can fly with no tail rotor. On small training helicopters you can alter blade pitch with manual controls. On heavier helicopters, you need hydraulic boost to move the rotor blades for you. However, the hydraulic system - pump, servos, cylinders, fluid - is all very heavy. On a helicopter that is designed to be light, because every pound of weight means a pound less that it can lift, that's not ideal. The K-Max uses an innovative and interesting system: instead of using hydraulics, and instead of using direct manipulation of the rotor blades, the pilot's controls move servo tabs on the blades themselves. Those are the "flaps" you see. If the controls direct the blade to increase pitch, it moves the servo tab up, and the air pressure from the blade moving through the air forces the blade to rotate and increase pitch. So it does have powered, boosted controls, but it uses air and servo tabs to do the work instead of complex, heavy hydraulics. The same method was used on old WWII bombers and large planes of that era. The pilots were nowhere near strong enough to move the massive control surfaces against the air pressure of the relative wind, so instead the pilot's controls move servo tabs (in some cases anti-servo tabs) which then apply force to move the control surfaces.

@@ScottsSynthStuff Huge respect for your love of this aircraft. Appreciate the enlightening explanation.

@@ScottsSynthStuff Nicely explained.

Glad you liked it!

The Kmax can lift 6,000lbs. It was definitly heavier till some of the water drained out. We thought it would do a lot more damage to the roof too.

@@KrisDeVo german passenger compartment engineering

Thats a good question

We were unsure of that as well

Or submarine races ? LMAO

Really appreciate that! Thanks

Haha! That would have been somthing

Was a safety issue and didn't want to risk the car going anywhere. As you can see it pulled it out just fine.

How would they have opened the doors when it was pinned in by ice? They mentioned current may have carried the car to shallow water so there might be current under the ice which would be difficult to open against, Running the straps through the doors adds strength for the lift. The car weighs 3600 lbs the kmax can life 6000, it can handle the 200 + gl of water in the car

no way, the weight of a car is minimum, even with a ton of water extra.

lol that German engineering 🤷🏼‍♂️

Car was mint otherwise! Clean, 1 owner

PS: I also was involved in the search for `the real "Airwolf" that has crashed in bad weather in Germany ! Not many people know the fact that AIRWOLF is destroyed.

The Audi was at the head if the Kenai river, probably the largest recreational fishery in Alaska. It is also in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The fishery brings in 10s of thousands of people every summer and this area is at the headwaters of the Kenai and is huge for boating and fishing. It was a major hazard and needed to be removed as fast as possible. I believe insurance paid for the recovery for the most part.

Thats a good question!

Straps were way over rated for this pull and choking locks them from shifting. Could have done a double basket but wasn't needed.

Clean, 1 owner

Nice job

Really appreciate that! Thank you

haha it does!

The owner had some morals, clearly, though little brains apparantly

Haha! Fire and Ice?

Our pleasure!

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