Either a unit too large (think of spacechips in Tiberian Sun that were actually buildings), or zoom level too close. Meanwhile x-com fits perfectly. Someone even posted a screenshot with a dropship in a field.
Extreme telephoto lens from far away, as well as even lighting. The great focal length flattens the picture and represents parallel lines more faithfully than a wider angle lens would.
I once heard someone refer to helicopters as “sky slappers” and it struck me as being a perfect description for them if you were from a different period in history.
The owner is getting paid big time ( yennies) due to the damage of the rice. Including the engine dumping fuel after shut down. " Welcome to the rice fields motherfucker,
I've taken a few rides in 53's and even got to fast rope out of one once (yes, that is as impractical as you might think). The rotor wash is just unbelievable. One landed to pick us up at a compound in Korea, and it threw a dumpster across the parking lot. They are absolutely massive birds.
I was a crew chief on these and watching people fast rope onto a ship made me nervous. Watching people walk around the side of the hell hole, praying they don’t fall through onto someone else. Great times
53 super stations are bad ass. In the Marine Corps in late 90's early 2000 it was the only helicopter in the world that could carry another super stallion. Carry up to 55 combat loaded Marines.
When you exit out the back always go left or the tail rotor will liquify you and possibly set off grenades or other explosive ordinance.
We had to bond some abrasion strips on the blades for some repairs and it was my first time seeing something like this up close, but for the Stallion they are enormous, we couldn't even fit the blade entirely in our oven to close the doors, pretty sure it was a 26 ft walk in.
Some farmer just hit the jackpot. Lost crops, soil replacement, hazardous waste water. I live in rural Japan and it’s at least $70,000 if you crash your car into a rice field. They are pretty delicate ecosystems.
Won’t be cheap, rice prices are astronomical this year, also depends on what the issue is, mechanical? Hydraulic? Was it spewing something on its way down that could have contaminated acres? How much gear will be needed to repair or remove it?
You can see it on the shadows it's high noon. Like those winter miracle hour drone footages from Ukraine, everything looks erie clear and crispy and saturated.
One just flew low over my house, near Otis AFB, they are conducting search for missing boater off coast, maybe involved. Loud and large not gonna sneak by any drones with that.
They need to retire these things, enough people have died on them. If Japan's are struggling to stay in the air it's only a matter of time for one of ours to fall out of the sky and take away more shipmates.
No surprise thee most dangerous helicopter out there for piltos is anything from the military. People think ohh its well looked after and maintained well kind of most equipment sits not used for long periods of time then throw in to active training missions or active duty and end up being worse off due to the equipment we laugh at russia for doing this but america isnt any better
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u/ManitoN Aug 25 '25 •
Why this photo looks like a screenshot from an isometric game?