Talk:Super Puma Display Team

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Please have a look at the swiss air Force page. The swiss Air Force clearly caount the Super Puma Display Team together with the PC-7Team and the Patrouille Suisse. And if it doesent fit to the Section of display teams, the article can may go to an other category , but i see no need to delet it. http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/verbaende/einsatz_lw/kunstflugteam/superpuma.html FFA P-16 (talk) 16:47, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

I see no need to delet this pager, only because it is performed whit one aircraft, and it can be done with any of the swiss air force Superpumas or Cougars. It is a official Team of the swiss Air Force since years and shown every year inside and outside switzerland. It matches to the category like this = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_T%C3%BCrk FFA P-16 (talk) 16:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Flight patern of Superpuma Display = http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/verbaende/einsatz_lw/kunstflugteam/superpuma/teil.html

Program (see for eg. Superpuma at RAF Tatto Waddington http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/aktuell/airshows.html FFA P-16 (talk) 17:09, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Or if all tihs is not good enough. It is posible take the Superpuma Display team out of the category but it could be still inside the category about swiss military. On the other hand, if there is no category for single aircraft display teams, why not create one? I think such teams like the Super Puma Display team or Solo Türk and other such soloteams who are often at air Shows should have a place in wikipedia too. FFA P-16 (talk) 17:45, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

As it is no more in the category aerobatic teams, but still worth to be in the category about the swiss air force, i made that modification. i hope this is O.K. FFA P-16 (talk) 08:15, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

See Air14

Besides the classic air acrobatics squadron of the Swiss Air Force – the Patrouille Suisse and PC-7 Team – the Super Puma Display team is also present at the AIR14 and it continues to amaze the public with its spectacular program. Captain Matthieu Ghiringhelli is part of this team since 2010 and talked about the maneuvers, the accompanying risk and the great amount of trust the captain has in his co-pilot during a media conference today. Whilst the air acrobatics squadrons at AIR14 leave the public awestruck with their perfectly staged and synchronized performances, the Super Puma Display Team consists of but one helicopter. Even so, teamwork still remains highly central and important. “The co-pilot is my eye in the cockpit” states heli-pilot Captain Matthieu Ghiringhelli, who gives his best with the Super Puma at AIR14. What he means is, he sits on the right-hand side of the cockpit and performs the various maneuvers as commander. He is assisted by his co-pilot, who handles the radio and monitors all systems. “He is very important for me, because he has his eyes on the instruments at all times” explains Ghiringhelli. “I am so focused on the program, the maneuvers and what is happening outside during the 9-minute performance that I rarely look inside the cockpit.” The product of the cooperation between the two pilots, who are both in the display-team as well as the Professional Aviators Corps of the Air Force can be marveled at between 30 and 600 meters above the ground. The helicopter flies forwards, backwards, sideways and even likes to lift its tail so high in the air until it flies vertically and almost seems to hold still in mid-air. “We don’t have many figures in our program so we push the helicopter to its physical limits and as far as safety regulations allow”, says Matthieu Ghiringhelli. The performed figures were first executed by “pioneers” as Ghiringhelli calls them. “I am grateful that pilots like Charly Bachmann tested the maneuvers scientifically and practically on how much risk is involved.” One of the reasons why the Super Puma Display Team is so respected and honored by others, is because it remains one of the select few teams, to display acrobatic performances with such a large and heavy helicopter (with a basic weight of nearly 5 tons). Another reason is the aerodynamics and the agility of the helicopter. “This is very rare, that is correct” says Ghiringhelli. “The English do amazing things with the even heavier Chinook however. Yet these are the only comparable helicopter teams, which I know.” [1] FFA P-16 (talk) 18:37, 31 August 2014 (UTC)