The Associated Press reported: MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) - A helicopter crashed and sank Saturday after its landing gear caught on the handrail of an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. The Coast Guard, Petroleum Helicopters Inc. and two offshore supply vessels searched for the pilot, identified as...

Repost of a *thread* from 5/2002 this time - it's long; I have concatenated the thread posts into this single repost. Some content is by "Badwater Bill" and other authors. cheers, Dave Blevins

With sadness I learned of Bob passing away from lymphatic cancer last Saturday 11Feb. He was an early test pilot on the R-22, 'Nam vet pilot, chief pilot at AlexAir for years. If you have been to the Robinson safety course you may recall seeing him doing autos in at least one video. I flew with him...

And what does it do? It looks to me like it's part of the drive train. Until I opened the original box and looked inside, it had never been opened since the 60's when the spider was manufactured by Textron in Fort Worth, Texas. The spider belongs to WNC Air Museum, which is selling it.

Please help me with some info on the Brantly B2 Will it be able to be flown safely in South Africa. I live at 4700 ft above sea level with summer temps up to 100F I am worried about density altitude. Thanks

I'm a fixed wing kinda guy looking to get a rotor add-on. It seems to me that there are plenty of nice Brantlys out there for less than a $100K. My questions to the group are; 1. Is it do-able to get my training in my own machine? insurance, instructors, does the instructor have to have been...

Piloter un helico: le reve, en faire son metier: le reve +. Apres quelques recherches, il s'avere que le brevet est d'un cout exhorbitant!! Ne peut-on acceder a son reve que si l'on est "Francais d'en haut"??? Y a-t'il moyen d'y parvenir quand meme? quelle en serait la methode? Merci pour toute...

Greetings, all. I am new to this group, but I have been studying Gyros for a few years. I've decided on building a Gyrobee. I'd love to build one from scratch, doing my own cutting and drilling, not for the cost savings but just because I'm an engineer at heart and love to build things. The only...

I was cleaning out my emails and came across this little beauty from BWB. Thought I'd share. bwbill wrote: I took my brother’s small boy Christopher with me to a shopping mall the other day and I lost him for awhile. He approached a uniformed policeman and said,...

I pu;;ed this from the USCG site: NINTH DISTRICT OPERATIONS AND NINTH DISTRICT OFFICE OF SEARCH AND RESCUE VISIT JOINT RESCUE COORDINATION CENTER TRENTON, ONTARIO, CANADA On Nov. 19, the D9 Chief of Operations and the D9 Chief of Search and Rescue visited Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC)...

Does anyone have Stu fielsd email address ?

Jae is my son in law and has left the service. They are living in silver spring, maryland. Address:9912 woodburn road, silver spring, md 20901

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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The www.cartercopters.com website has been unaccessible for several days. Does anyone know when if/when it will return, or is there a new site ? Thank you, Declan Hughes

I'm looking for a castellated socket 2" OD with 6 tangs, splines, whatever they are called. Needed to disengage the yoke nut from the top of my rotor mast. Google just runs me back and forth thru India, NSW and other places. Anyone know of a source? Stu

Over on the rec.aviation.military forum a discussion got around to the doppler effect and/or helo rotor blades, and the following exchange took place: ------------------------------------------------------ if the air reaches M 1.0 going over the thickest part of the airfoil, bang!. Whop,...

CBO - Modernizing the Army's Rotary-Wing Aviation Fleet http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/88xx/doc8865/11-30-Helicopters.pdf

Does anyone know the benefits of either a CECO fuel control versus a Bendix fuel control on the Rolls Royce 250 Series? Aside from the fact that one works off of air pressure and the other off of fuel pressure is one better than another?

If you were there, you know what I mean. If you weren't there, I'm sorry. The first annual, they are already planning for the next year, Central Sierra Helicopter Meet was a resounding success. 13 helicopters showed. Schweitzers, Bell 47, Baby Belle, Ultrasports, Helicycle, a Scorpion II and both...