wrote in message ...
David, you have a lot of gall to call me stupid. YOU ARE THE ONE WHO
IS STUPID AND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. I was at that
airport and saw the thing, WERE YOU THERE?. It was so overloaded that
the pilot had to take off like an airplane. It took him several
hundred feet to drag it on its skids fast enough to get enough
translational lift to get off the ground! According to the pilot,
this was reccommended proceedure when the gas tanks were full!

For your information, the guy in that flight (which you presume to be
an expert) did get off the ground and got half way out over the lake
when he realized that something was wrong. He never got more than
about 10 feet up. Then he turned back to the airport and got all the
way back to the shore of the lake before going plop. Another 20 feet
and he would have set down on dry land undamaged.

The pilot said that he was giving it maximum throttle. If the rpm
decayed, it was due to the craft and not the pilot. The on site FAA
guy said that it was overloaded.

David, I don't know what kind of idiot you are, but before you call
someone else stupid, you'd better get your facts straight.

Dennis H.

The facts of the crash
www.brantly.info
NTSB Report-May 2003, N2141U

(helopilot) wrote:

Dennis, you're stupid and obviously don't know what you're talking
about. The helicopter was not overloaded on that flight. The guy
flying it let the RRPM decay beyond recovery, as can be done with any
helicopter. The Brantly is a good, reliable helicopter that can be
operated very reasonably. It's also no more cramped than any other
2-place helicopter, and actually has more room than the R22 and
certainly more than your rediculous scorpion.



wrote in message ...
"Stu & Kathy Fields" wrote:

The power/wt and hp/wt is as good or better than the Safari. But......

the brantly is a piece of junk. I'll take my scorpion over a brantly
any day.

BTW, the hub system on a brantley is a retarded attempt at a fully
articulated hub system. It has three heavy blades with the lead-lag
hinge about half way out on the blade. Its true, I'm not joking, the
blade hinges way out in the middle about 6 feet out.

No two-passenger helicopter should have been overloaded with those two
skinny guys in there. One was trapped underwater because the cockpit
is so cramped. Fortunately, he was able to pop the windscreen out and
escape through there.

Save your money and buy something besides a brantly.

Dennis H.


Dennis Hawkins
n4mwd AT amsat DOT org (humans know what to do)

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Dennis Hawkins
n4mwd AT amsat DOT org (humans know what to do)

"A RECESSION is when you know somebody who is out of work.
A DEPRESSION is when YOU are out of work.
A RECOVERY is when all the H-1B's are out of work."

To find out what an H-1B is and how Congress is using
them to put Americans out of work, visit the following
web site and click on the "Exporting America" CNN news
video: http://zazona.com/ShameH1B/MediaClips.htm