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Injuries by
Ol Shy & Bashful
Curious thought while noodling early on a Sunday a.m. (0600). Anyone
else here ever been injured while flying a helicopter? Perhaps its
splitting hairs but twice now I've broken a finger getting out of
them. Landed my Hiller 12E crossways on irrigation rows to wait for my
loading truck and was...
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Carb Heat by
[email protected]
I heard, somewhere, that if you apply full carb heat and then
immediately lower the collective (on R22s and 44s)this can cause the
engine to run rough and in extreme cases can even cause engine
failure.I s there any evidence for this or is it just a silly rumour?
I have, up until now, always pulled...
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Actual Autos by
Ol Shy & Bashful
Besides the autorotations done in and for training pruposes, how many
of you have had to do an unplanned auto as in engine failure,
mechanical failure, or other in flight difficulties?
I've had at least five over the past 40 years just while doing aerial
application in Bell and Hiller...
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control failure by
Stuart & Kathryn Fields
aluminum control tube failed causing helicopter crash. The helo had an
anodized aluminum control tube that failed in fatigue with less than 400hrs.
The loading was low producing stresses in the area of 460psi. Discussions
with anodizing folks say "Never anodize flight critical components" ...
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Flight Time - Student ;) by
Ol Shy & Bashful
Weather going to **** and I had to make the runway with winds blowing
40kts and cloud deck down to 200. what to do...WHAT TO DO.. and I
remembered my old USMC instructor telling me to just go inverted and
autorotate to get some altitude. Broke out on top, rolled right side
up and continued to an...
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Wake for RAR by
Stuart & Kathryn Fields
Will there be a wake for
RAR? Maybe an Irish wake?
Stu Fields
Experimental Helo magazine
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BELL 417 by
[email protected]
I heard via the rumor mill that Bell has cancelled the 417. Also
heard that Bell has crashed 3 of the new armed recon helos and the
Army is concidering cacelling the contract. Anyone have any new on
the above taopics?
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April 5th 07 01:39 PM
by Brien
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Rotorway To Develop Certified Helicopter by
601XL Builder
RotorWay International, based in Chandler, Ariz., has sold more than 900
kits for small homebuilt helicopters, and now is starting development of
a certified version. "We see a large opening in the market for a larger,
two-seat, 21st-century helicopter with a sensible price," said CEO Grant...
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Genuine? Helicopter post by
Ol Shy & Bashful
Got to watch a V-22 Osprey doing touch and goes today at KBFM. What a
fun hour of watching that amazing machine making the transition from
hover to forward flight and back again. Wish to hell I could get some
stick time in that one before I hang up my licenses in the next year
or two.
Wish to hell...
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fixed wing or rotary wing? by
Craig Campbell
I am about to start my private pilot helicopter course. I have been told
that learning fixed wing first makes it much easier.
I am not sure what to do as my heart was set on rotary but I want to do it
right first time.
Can anyone please give me feedback on this?
Thanks
Craig Campbell
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Air Scooter by
Linc
I found this:
http://www.airscooter.com/pages/airscooter_main.htm
Couldn't post a reply on the Super Skycycle thread.
Linc
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March 19th 07 05:06 AM
by Linc
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Dumb ass by
Ol Shy & Bashful
With any luck the clown who keeps posting his garbage re;Belfort will
fall off a cliff or something and quit taking up all the room around
here. Have seen his venom spewing on quite a few groups and wish he'd
get the message we don't collectively care a whole lot.
For the most part I ignore his...
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March 17th 07 12:17 PM
by Linc
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I know almost nothing on helicopters... by
Externet
Hi. First post here.
Always got it in my head, decided to ask today...
What if the body of a helicopter was built shaped with some tilt, as a
"sail" or with a vertical controllable aileron by its bottom, or both;
in such way that the downstream air flow from the main rotor caused the
same...
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March 17th 07 12:15 PM
by Linc
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a VERY close call....who'd be deck crew? by
Nick
Thought you guys might be interested
http://www.videosift.com/video/Helicopter-Madness-A-Close-Call
But why wouldn't he have kept some negative collective to keep it nailed to
the deck?.... how far would the tips 'dished' down?.....not enough to cause
the crew more worries than they already...
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Lynn Tilton CIA Operative? by
[email protected]
As a former employee of the U.S. Army Aviation System Command at NASA
Lewis
who was played into the position by CIA plants then thrown out of
society resulting
in my cleaning the Orange County Convention Center after the
HAI( Helicopter Association
International or HELI-Con or in my case HELL-Con)...
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March 4th 07 05:58 PM
by dstory
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Bell 206 parts cyclic by
dstory
Can someone point me in the direction of a decent parts distributer.
I'm looking for a certian style of cyclic, and I'm struggling to find
the part #
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March 4th 07 05:35 PM
by dstory
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