Rooivalk Attack Helicopter || Acrobatics & Angel Flare || African Aerospace and Defense 2022 (AAD)

An impressive display at AAD 2022 by Maj Paul Kempthorne (Pilot in Command) & Maj Corne Stadler (Weapon Systems Officer) in an impressive attack helicopter. My bad camera and tracking skills do not do it justice.
This was the 17h15 appearance at sunset, flying in with a very impressive BK117 display, which they were switching out performances - this is the trimmed footage.
Trying to mute the wind buffeting messed with the rotor sounds, so I left it in. And having a lense with better optical zoom might have allowed a better angle without the sunset, but then again it wouldn't have gotten the frontal view of the angel wings.
And yes, that smoke cloud from the flares hung around for minutes - far longer than the smoke trails from the aeroplane acrobatics.

[@Daniel-jq4qk]

Love this helo.. This plus the AH-1 Supercobra would be great for DCS.

[@volkvoort]

Yup. and Yup.

[@nyacfoox9853]

Angel of death as my dad described it when he was a paratrooper

[@volkvoort]

fitting name

[@volkvoort]

Plenty of folks attending the shows with better filming gear and skills - just a few examples you can check out: jstanderphotography.pic-time.com/-aad2022/gallery ; tdhphotography.com/aad-september-2022-day-3

[@cmdrpepelluce5375]

I was searching for a picture with flare moment. Found it 👍🏻

[@Claudiu_Dumitru]

The Rooivalk wasn't based on Alouette III or something? I might be wrong.

[@volkvoort]

As I understand it, sort of. Or at least an Alouette was used in an initial prototype to see if they could pull the concepts off. Think the Rooivalk itself is a bit more related to the Oryx, though you wouldn't guess it standing up close - very different layout/structure.

[@nwbasson]

It was built from the Puma (Oryx), yes.

[@tmting4942]

Give a big hug to this Mk1F CSH beautiful machine from me.. (🗣️📢ED ASAP I NEED IT NOW ON DCS )

[@volkvoort]

Weird. Dunno if you deleted your comment - but I only see it in some background views, and it's not flagged as "held for review"/inappropriate either.

[@tmting4942]

@@volkvoort no idea!! the comment is still.. I'm not really familiar with Google's comment options, but I 'm gonna take a look.. can you indicate me where I've to check?

[@volkvoort]

@@tmting4942 See that's the thing - I don't know. It's supposed to show unless you deleted it, or it got held up in review for having dodgy words/links etc., but I'm not seeing it held for review either. I have recently read there's some weird YT bug that occasionally happens where comments are known to exist but otherwise lost like this - don't think I've seen a fix/workaround. I am seeing your new comment/reply on the chain in the background app thingies, and the number of comments on the vid is tracking this conversation, but it's not showing. weird.

[@tmting4942]

@@volkvoort Many thanks for your explicit help man, maybe YT algorithm picks "BEFORE I DIIIE" as a threat, I'm gonna edit it now, if it doesn't work, I’ll delete it and make an "appropriate" comment according to YT standards.. I'm on standby for your signal.

[@volkvoort]

@@tmting4942 huh. Seems editing that out made it sprout into existence

[@user-vd8xs6zd5w]

남아프리카공화국의 자랑

[@user-py8jc5mv5s]

Why sandf only have 12 in defence force if denel makes this helicopter think they need more in defence force

[@volkvoort]

Lack of funding for allocated to/reaching military for spending & lack export sales to drive down unit costs I'd guess.