Is it possible to do Alligator fishing with an R/C helicopter? Or can you even land on an Alligator? Legendary croc hunter and R/C pilot Billy Hill took us onto a trip deep into the Florida Everglades to find out!
Heli of the day was a trusty old Skyfox with wooden blades. Won’t do damage to an alligator (just in case) and wouldn’t be a real loss either should it crash into the swamp. Overall one of our favorite Legacy actions, warmly remembering the fun we all had. Time passes so quickly (sigh) …
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*ALLIGATOR EXPERIMENT – THE WHY & THE HOW*
A long long time ago we had gotten a phone call with a seemingly simple
question. And it wasn’t really a question but more of a suggestion: if you
had a bait dangling from an R/C heli, could you attract an alligator? And
if you could, was it possible to touch it with the skids? – “Errr, pardon …
what?!”
Well, already at this point opinions parted (and still do). For some it is
an impossible mission that can never work, for others it is hilarious fun,
and again for others it is nothing of interest. But no matter which way you
look at it, the one thing that all views had in common was: on a purely
fact-based level, nobody had a clue. Opinions, sure! But a real clue as to
whether this could be done, certainly no.
*Initially we hadn’t been interested in exploring the question because* we,
too, thought that the noise of the heli would scare even alligators. Also
we didn’t know much about them, only that they were potentially dangerous
and that we didn’t want to get near them. But well, time passed and the guy
who had suggested it happened to know a lot about gators and kept telling
us it was doable. And also that – even if you wanted to – you wouldn’t be
able to do damage to a gator with wooden blades on the heli. What’s more,
someone “donated” an old model for the test. So finally, with nearly
everything in place and us doing some other heli stunt in Florida anyway
(Airboat Ride), what was there to lose?
On the day of the stunt we remember it rained a lot. *But the mood was so
exceptionally good* that when looking back this eventually became one of
the nicest experiences we ever had. And as the icing on the cake, after a
while the alligators really came and started to bite. We couldn’t believe
it! They didn’t care about the heli but simply went for the bait!
*While all of this may be less impressive in the video* (which certainly
isn’t one of our best works), it did stun everyone on site. Maybe it is for
all of these reasons that we like this event so much. Why it was so cool.
And thanks to our LEGACY series we can save it from falling into oblivion.
It was a truly great day with truly great people. Thanks everyone for
insisting it could be done and for sharing the fun. *Miss you all and hope
the video brings back some cool memories. Plus that it is the same fun for
our friends around the globe in our YouTube channel. Hope you guys like it,
too!*
Cheers! Your friends at
Team HeliGraphix
cool vid guy’s thanks for sharing
Wheres the down facing camera on helicopter as u fly over the gators???
the first video I don´t like it
well done again boys keep them coming THANKS AGAIN LUV IT
Hovering stationary? you don’t say?
You guy’s are incredible!!! Thumbs up!!
Wo istn das ? Sind das Marshmallows?:D
Speechless!
Wau! Das macht euch so schnell keiner nach! Alleine die niedlichen
Haustiere, die den Heli bewundern dürfen und nebenbei noch etwas leckeres
zu Futtern bekommen^^
Great job guys I’m so glad I subscribed to this channel
man those gators really fuck up some marshmallows huh
Hahah 😀 Crazy