Italian Agusta A129 land in the city of Palermo for a military festival

That’s a different crash than the Huntington Beach crash. As far as I know, the two people in the helicopter and three injured on the ground from Huntington Beach crash are all alive, but their condition hadn’t been reported last I saw.

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MrPigeon70@reddit

Wrong crash

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ReturnOfTheSaint14@reddit

Yeah a helicopter crashed in California some hours ago

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Chrillosnillo@reddit

Do these mfers ever stay in the effing air RIP Kobe,Mcrae,Stevie Ray Vaughn and alot more

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Tr35on@reddit

Oh. Thx.

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opteryx5@reddit

I was actually expecting this to yaw uncontrollably at first. Seen too many videos of that other incident lol.

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p8nt_junkie@reddit

👀

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second2no1@reddit

Thats a low bow lol

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ImaginaryAcadia6621@reddit

😜

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schastlivaya-zhizn@reddit

That aliasing 👌

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imaguitarhero24@reddit

It's crazy how clear it looks, also a great demonstration of the fact that the blades don't slow down to land, the collective go brr

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No_Sugarcoating@reddit

What makes the helicopter descend then? Does the angle of the blades change?

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imaguitarhero24@reddit

I am no expert at all but I do know yes the angle changes increasing or decreasing lift.

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oryx_za@reddit

I was looking forward to see how it looked when they did slowdown. I feel robbed.

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ThrowTheSky4way@reddit

They don’t slow down

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Transarchangelist@reddit

I’m sure they meant after the video cut and the rotor slowed to a stop.

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oryx_za@reddit

Thats exactly what i meant. Thank you

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Going_Solvent@reddit

Would've been epic! I reckon it would slowly move backwards. what do you think?

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oryx_za@reddit

Yes, my guess was blurrythe backwards....then forwards....then blurry again. then stopped.

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syringistic@reddit

If you look VERY closely at the main rotor as hes almost landed, you can see the blades skip just the tiniest bit as the camera catches the frame. Looks like maybe 2 inches per second.

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BlackTree78910@reddit

I never knew helicopter blades could spin that slowly and still keep flying 👀

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Tilde88@reddit

please tell me you're joking

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ThrowTheSky4way@reddit

There’s a lot of people who don’t realize that that the frame rate of the camera plays into how the rotors look, those same people are commenting theories on why helicopters crash

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Conundrum1911@reddit

Helicopters aren’t real. /s

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ThrowTheSky4way@reddit

Tru

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Tilde88@reddit

100% agreed. it's clearly the shutter speed. if the blades were really that slow, it would be on the ground in half a second

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last_one_on_Earth@reddit

Blacktree78910 was joking

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Objective-Holiday-57@reddit

Im so clever I know why helicopter blades look like that 🤓

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upturned2289@reddit

It’s … a pretty easy concept my man. Nothing rocket science here.

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Objective-Holiday-57@reddit

Yeah no shit that’s what I’m on about?

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upturned2289@reddit

Why? What a strange thing to get mad over

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Crimson__Fox@reddit

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slogive1@reddit

Looks like an Apache.

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ExplosivePancake9@reddit

Dosent look at all like an Apache and is not based on an Apache.

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nighthawke75@reddit

A kid's version of the Apache.

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Evidencebasedbro@reddit

That's what helicopters do 😉.

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salkhan@reddit

I've heard an Apache helicopter and their rotors are somlound compared this helicopter.

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AstroRoverToday@reddit

The words Military and Festival shouldn't be used in the same sentence, even though that's exactly what I just did 🤣

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nighthawke75@reddit

This is the end result of good planning. The pilots scouted the location. Assessed how.much forward velocity it would take yo make a safe landing, and probably ram it through the simulator.

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outkast767@reddit

I’ve been blacked out drunk in a bar 2 blocks from this square. lol small world

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LostInDinosaurWorld@reddit

Is this the square in front of Teatro Garibaldi?

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fritofrito77@reddit

The reason for the blades spinning slowly is the helicopter is running on silent mode to not disturb the neighbors. This is a common procedure when flying close to buildings.

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morel_shitburg@reddit

Looks AI

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IsXp@reddit

Why?

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ExplosivePancake9@reddit

But its not AI, it literally happened a week ago, you can just google it, the event is called Villaggio Esercito, theres 3 different videos of the helo landing and you could enter it and make a photo for like 5 days

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atthegreenbed@reddit

“Mom can we have Apache?” Mom: “We have Apache at home”…

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ExplosivePancake9@reddit

The A 129 was not based on the Apache, it was not intended as a competitor to the Apache, and dosent even look similar to an Apache, so this joke seems very strange.

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fk067@reddit

How many here are confused with the slow moving rotors.

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ExplosivePancake9@reddit

They are not slow moving, they are actually going more than 200 turns a minute, they appear slow due to the shutter of the camera, quite a famous thing

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GKtheanythingliker@reddit

Is that like an Italian AH-64 Apache

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sum_yung_guy69@reddit

Apaccini

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SchimL@reddit

Don‘t do that

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ExplosivePancake9@reddit

Nope, its a different helicopter not based on the Apache, the A-129 was designed by Italy in the 1970s as a light scout and anti tank helicopter, its almost 3 times lighter than an Apache and has about half the ordinance of too , the closest helicopter in terms of role and weight is the AH-1 Cobra, wich is why the A-129 was named Mangusta, as Mangoose are the only animal that eats communly eats Cobras.

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SpitneyBearz@reddit

Jeysus! Trees looked so close to it!

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dallatorretdu@reddit

sweaty pams indeed

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tiorzol@reddit

Haha fucking love that

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BlackTree78910@reddit

Ffs 🤦‍♂️😂😂😂

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dumpster-muffin-95@reddit

Better than Huntington Beach.

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anun4h@reddit

Holly shit! Those blades basically stopped spinning. I presume a gearbox failure but I don’t want to speculate (let the NTSB do their job). Very smooth landing by the pilot during what must be a stressful emergency. Much better outcome than that landing in California. I am sure everyone survived this one.

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ExplosivePancake9@reddit

Are you being ironic? The blades did not stop moving, the shutter of the camera matched the rotor speed, this is very commun.

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NoLingonberry2831@reddit

That's tight in a bad way!

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Big_Spicy_Tuna69@reddit

Those must be some very efficient rotors to provide that much lift rotating so slowly.

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king_noslrac@reddit

BF6 has taught me to fear this chopper over anything else

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ExplosivePancake9@reddit

Theres no A 129 in BF6, in BF6 the main attack helis are the Ah 64 and the Eurocopter Tiger, the A 129 was in battlefield 2 tough.

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king_noslrac@reddit

Thats probably where my mind went. Tbh I haven't even tried the helos yet I spend too much time avoiding them.

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SoNowWhat---@reddit

Love the frame rate, great video :)

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Klin24@reddit

Enter than that helicopter in Huntington Beach yesterday.

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Area51_Spurs@reddit

You think Famke Janssen got out and jumped Onatopp of a dude and fulfilled his dream?

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edoardo849@reddit

Tell me you are 40 without telling me you are 40

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Area51_Spurs@reddit

lol. I can do you one better, I went to school with his kid.

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crackhit1er@reddit

1000% best bond imho. Awesome bad bond chick, Sean Bean as the antagonist, good bond girl, Robbie Coltrane and Joe Don Baker are phenomenal comic relief, and Judi Dench is total fire as M, steadfastly curbing Bond's wit and charisma.

Whelp, now I got to see where it's streaming so I can watch it again.

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ReturnOfTheSaint14@reddit

I've been inside the Mangista (yes, it's called like that) twice and i can tell you it has A LOT of leg room. Like,i'm 1.80m tall (5'9" for our American friends) and my legs are almost 1m tall if you count till the ankle,and yet I still had some space left for my legs inside. Granted,it was the Gunner position so i don't know if the pilot has some pedals in his position,and i also think that the seats can be adjusted,but it was still astonishing.

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simpliflyed@reddit

1.8m is 5’11”. I don’t have anything relevant to add, but you’re selling yourself short.

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ReturnOfTheSaint14@reddit

It's 5'11"?my bad i literally don't know how to convert from meters to foot or i mean: using the converter it gave me 5,9 so i thought it meant 5'9". I fucking hate Meters to Foot conversion, they're the hardest to do

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simpliflyed@reddit

I knew 6’ is 184cm, so it didn’t seem right! I work in healthcare and despite metric measurements being standard here for 70 years people still quote feet and inches at me when asking for a height.

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ReturnOfTheSaint14@reddit

Ok so what i'm understanding here is that the second number has a max: 5'11" is 180cm,6' is 184cm so it goes all the way to 12 and then the first number goes up?

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simpliflyed@reddit

Haha yep, 12 inches in a foot! Which actually must mean I’m wrong there somewhere as an inch is a touch over 2.5cm.

Yeah, 183cm- or 1828.8mm is 6 foot.

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ReturnOfTheSaint14@reddit

Okay so basically 12" is roughly 30cm, while 1' is basically 12"+1" meaning 1' is 32,5 cm,right?

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WorseDark@reddit

No. Its 12" (inches) = 1' (foot). It will never be 5'12", just like you wouldn't say the time is 4:60

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SecurelyObscure@reddit

You must really struggle telling time if anything other than base 10 confuses you this much.

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ReturnOfTheSaint14@reddit

Ahah i suppose you're very funny when partying,the fuck is this type of comment?I have problems converting from a decimal metric system to a non-decimal imperial system that uses two sets of units. Kilos to pounds or metres to miles is super easy,but not this

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SecurelyObscure@reddit

Yeah just having a bit of fun. It always amuses me when Europeans act like fractions are some sort of wizardry.

Fun fact, there was a brief period in the 18th century when France tried out a base 10 unit of time (10 hours a day, 10 minutes in an hour, etc.).

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altitude-adjusted@reddit

Nothing really to add here but as an american (lower case intentional) I love metric and hate freedom measure.

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DesertZero@reddit

Think of it like .9 of a foot, or 90% of a foot. A foot is base 12 (1 foot is 12 inches). 90% of 12 = 10.8 inches.

I'm a US guy that uses metric more than most here so I know the pain of conversions lol

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Nice video!

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Ok_Detective9670@reddit

Thats a smol boi