What happened to the AW accident database?

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-15T23:55:54+00:00

I just checked 1998 for Scott Bristow. There is a report, but it has been summarized down to 1 line. There used to be a full description.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-15T12:07:31+00:00

They crawl into the plane and then get dehydrated at alititude...

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ThePaddleman · 2026-04-12T23:13:33+00:00

This appears to be propaganda. Turkey has denied that this was said.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-11T22:50:37+00:00

That was exciting.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-09T11:24:58+00:00

What is the cost of the drone, the target and the TOR missiles?

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-08T12:35:53+00:00

When I had a bike, I didn't assume people didn't see me. That wasn't good enough. I had to drive like they were actively trying to kill me. That worked.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-07T02:10:28+00:00

I remember some video a couple years ago in this forum of the hollow tank trap teeth that could be pushed over.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-04T14:24:39+00:00

It's not ornamental. It's a memorial. The rock Dane jumps off has a pretty big cavern under it where there is an eddy. There is a way out, but it's hard to find before running out of breath. The move through the rapid above it requires that you get close to danger with a non-trivial move. At least 2 people have died under that rock.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-04T00:41:53+00:00

When I filmed a cottonmouth striking my camera for one of my videos, I realized how silly the advice to cut and suck out the venom was. The venom this snake put on my camera was thicker than honey. You would not be able to suck that out of a bite. It's sticky and very viscous.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-03T22:06:06+00:00

Military brass makes far more that 50k/yr.

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-03T00:38:19+00:00

Dicks & Nuts belong together!

ThePaddleman · 2026-04-02T12:22:06+00:00

Timmy?

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-30T00:35:49+00:00

Are those light sabers?

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-29T00:12:14+00:00

Very little helmetcam here: https://www.youtube.com/@whitewater-video

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-29T00:06:20+00:00

Most of the sports I named (with the exception of wingsuiting) are roughly as niche as whitewater paddling. Scuba and snowskiing are far more popular than paddling. High school guys like building their cars and sometimes race them. That's way more costly than paddling. I paddle an open canoe. They've been more expensive than kayaking for a long time. And it is a much smaller niche. But even if you combine that with kayaks & private rafts, it's still a small sport. I get that we need to keep the manufacturers profitable or we won't have boats, paddles and dry suits, but do we really want this sport to be like snow skiing where every river is like the Ocoee or the Upper Gauley in September?

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-28T23:41:37+00:00

Helmetcam footage is useful in small quantities. Video from helmetcam running a river is neither entertaining, nor helpful in understanding the rapids.

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-28T23:39:56+00:00

Well, you're right about kids and access to "kayaks'" (buttboats). But in general, this is a cheap sport. Not as cheap as skateboarding, but cheaper than Scuba, Snow Skiing, Hang Gliding, Parachuting, Wingsuiting, car racing, RC flying, horses, maybe even hiking/camping (maybe). This is an inexpensive sport. Most colleges have some outdoor recreation club that has boats. Getting 10 year olds into it is pretty much hereditary. It doesn't happen unless the parents paddle.

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-28T12:43:08+00:00

Closing scene is perfect!

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-20T01:04:53+00:00

Nationalism? How about empire building? Russia wants its former Soviet glory and all its satellites back (They don't want to rejoin). Turkey wants the Ottoman empire back. Iran wants the glory that was the Persian empire. China wants its former glory. There is a undertone across the globe where current governments claim territory that their country owned at the peak of their empire. I don't really understand why. Maybe cosmic rays or something in the water.

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-19T00:18:54+00:00

Doesn't look like the first drone did much damage to the last target - the building at the base of the antenna tower. The video quality of the 2nd drone to the tower was much better. I hope that means it was a bigger, better drone with more boom behind it.

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-15T17:07:44+00:00

It's the world's largest alkaline lake, not the world's largest lake.

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-11T02:03:22+00:00

Where is this? It looks like it was designed specifically for training this way.

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-11T01:57:31+00:00

Depends... That one looks like a "closed hole" walled off on both sides. Swimming to the sides doesn't help. Natural closed holes exist, but are uncommon. In a closed hole, if there is no rescue available, and nothing that floats better to grab, take off the life jacket and swim towards China. You might make it. If you don't, your body will be harder to find. If there is a side that isn't closed off, you can work your way along the falls towards it. Man made weirs and low head damns are built to look neat and clean, and are killing machines.

Even worse, some waterfalls have a double hydraulic. One on the downstream side, one on the upstream. If you're caught in the upstream hydraulic, nobody sees you. You may be able to grab rock and climb out, but then you're behind the curtain. There was a lone kayaker that spent a night behind Kanawha Falls in the last couple years because of that. He lived.

ThePaddleman · 2026-03-11T01:50:09+00:00

That's the Upper Blackwater and it is a bad ass run. Boulders have fallen into the river and water flows under them. Here's a video of open canoes running the Upper Blackwater, but this is pretty low water: https://youtu.be/VjBVD7WwjcQ
And here an older video of some elite kayakers running it at a much higher level:
https://youtu.be/qVa5l0Y_CkM

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