Politics and payback aside, is anyone else upset by the fact that the Navy chose a less-safe, lower-performance helicopter to carry the President of the United States? For starters, the S-92 and EH101 were designed a generation apart as far as flaw-tolerant design and birdstrike and turbine...

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...

I didn't see any helicopter info on mrfizzix. Here are a few links that have a little bit more. However, the FAA helicopter handbook is probably the most...

hello I just finshed to build the aw95. I am glad to talk to people which are also buidling this helicopter. regards stephan

Hi, Can someone point me to any official accident statistics that would demonstrate the relative accident rates of various classes of certified and experimental helos? Specifically I would want to exclude any accidents that were pilot error or failure of maintenance. and only consider accidents...

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A Google search didn't turn up anything so let me appeal direct. Some years ago I saw a vendor selling a little plastic toy gyrocopter at a PRA Fly-In that flew much like a kite in the wind at the end of a line. Over the next couple years I saw the same toy at EAA events such as Lakeland and...

When designing rotor systems, you have to keep the tip speed subsonic to prevent all sorts of problems and losses that would otherwise occur at the sound barrier, right? What about large turbofan engines such as on modern airliners? The fan tips must be travelling at many orders of magnitude...

what do you guys think of that outfit ? are they a school that's worthy of consideration ? they run tv ads ! never seen a flight school EVER run tv ads !

Poultry in Motion wrote: This is as clear as I can make it: "Ask Dennis to identify *the Mini-500 prototype* for you." Ok, ask me. What do you want to know about the "Mini-500 prototype". It was the first Mini-500 I built, so it was a prototype. What point are you trying to make? Please just...

Does anyone know where the kickstarter is for this group? stu

I have a simulator models for the UFO-Helithruster and SparrowHawk gyrocopters for use in X-plane 7.0 and above. Email me for a copy. Noel

New England Gyroplane will begin offering gyroplane flight instruction starting late-July-August 2008 at the Sanford Regional Airport in Sanford, ME (KSFM). We will accept students from anywhere in the U.S., but will focus primarily on the New England states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,...

So.... In downtown Los Angeles, at 12th & Maple, stands the old Bendix Aviation building. The "Bendix" sign is visible for miiles. More info: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/neon_signs/bendix.html So, flying by it the other day, the pilot of the news helicopter I work in mentioned...

I wanted to let folks in the group know about a free e-mail newsletter some may find of interest. The Transportation Communications Newsletter comes out Monday through Friday and has a rundown of news items and other information related to all aspects of communications in the transportation field,...

Hi all, Believe it's soon the weekend of Culdrose airshow. Anyone going? In fact, some web pages quote the 19th, others quote 16th. I thought it was on for 2 or 3 days? I'm in Cambridgeshire, so it's a bit of a trek by road. Anyone from my area dropping in by air? I'd be interested in hitching a...

There's a rumour going around that Dennis Fetters perished in a Brantly crash in Argentina in July. For a rumour, that's very specific, and I'm going to check it out in Argentina. But it seems to me that it's pretty farfetched for several reasons. Seems like this group might be a place to...

I just had a strange one. I have been balancing my rotor system using a DSS balancer where I would get the ips and phase angle measurements, turn the rotor to the angle with respect to the photo cell described by the phase angle information, then sight over the velocimeter and add weight to the...

The Safari near Phoenix that crashed with the loss of two lives is now followed by a RotorWay in Vermont flown by Ronald York that crashed resulting in the Death of Mr. York. The investigation of both accidents is pending.

I recently tried a pair of Marathon flat free wheelbarrow tires to replace my pneumatic tires that had developed the habit of slowly leaking out the air. @#$%^ The rolling resistance was so great I couldn't move the helicopter by myself. In fact even with my wife's help it was very hard to get...