He left the country because he lives elsewhere, the 300 was insured, he`s been flying helicopters for more than forty odd years and still does at eighty five and over fourteen thousand hours...and you?
2:15 This is effing stupid! This pilot is asking for a dyn roll. This kind of capabilities should never be demonstrated. Lest some new guy, or irresponsible old hand decides to experiment. "Hold my beer and watch this". Flying backwards, is almost as dumb, and it has uses in RL. I hate this hot dog air shows. Show practical useful performance demo. Autorot to the ground, not into ground. Max performance climb. External sling operations. Extreme hovering skills. Confined area operations. Wire avoidance.
d koz - you obviously have no idea who Dennis Kenyon was. He wasn't some hotdog chancer - he was one of the most experienced rotary pilots in the UK. He did this kind of display to demonstrate the Enstrom's agility - plus he was simply better than Anyone else End.
What a fantastic machine and pilot i wouldnt even consider replacing with any thing but the Enstrom really dont like thr Robinsons at all they seem like toys comparared to Enstrom.
Very very very stupid & ignorant on the pilot's part at 1:52 to perform the ground manuever on the skids!!! Extremely lucky he didnt nose over into the ground or cause a dynamic roll over when both skids briefly touched the ground during the left circular pattern. Coulduh been a loss of a very expenssive Enstrom helo as well as injury or death to the pilot!!!
@@truckerray7533 -- Well if that is the opinion, then the same can be said for virtually any other display performer, in Any other machine - be it aircraft, cars - anything. Expertise, skill and competence are borne out of vast experience -- and Kenyon most certainly had that in excess. To quote your post -. "very, very, stupid & Ignorant" - he was Not - and those words are monumentally out of place here.
@@paulward4268 I NEVER said at any point of Denis Kenyon's lifestyle experiance of being a fixed wing & rotory wing helicopter pilot that he was a "very very stupid & ignorant" man! That's not what i was saying, & you took what I had said WAY OUT OF CONTEXT & you know it!!! I just said that it was "very very stupid & ignorant at 1:52 for him to perform that type of ground maneuver on the skids!" He could have had a nose over or a dynamic rollover resulting in a crash & that would have been what. . . . .PILOT ERROR!!! He was lucky at that particular moment of time, that he did not have a crash!! And did ya happen to see the helicopter crash he did have with the Hughes C-300 helicopter in Lehi, Utah??? Trying to come out of & recover from an inside loop he performed & ended up crashing into the ground! He was lucky he wasn't killed then & only walked away scratches, bumps, n bruises. He said. . . .it was pilot error & that crash was an eye opener for him & even though he was gonnuh continue flying helicopters, he was not going to perform any more aerobatic manuevers! And. . . . my he rest In peace after passing away from the illness he had!
@@truckerray7533 Heyyyy - whoa whoa!! Just a second - YOU WROTE "very, very stupid and ignorant" YOUR WORDS! I don't care what context! And YOU know what I was referring to! My point about his experience and skill is perfectly correct. His skills allowed him to perform the skid manouver,, and he had been doing it for many years. And yes, I do know of his crash in Utah - so what? Many display pilots have incidents during their careers - that doesn't mean that they are incompetent or reckless. I'm not here to change your mind - but I have the right to disagree with your view.
Great flite, you got more than an hour in that thing, nice going. Saw an Enstrom years ago and declared that should I be able to drive a chopper, that would be the one?
