Beav
You guys always make me laugh with your wry sense of humor! For a while
my wife would walk in the door and ask me, "Well, what have you done
today to damage your beautiful body?"...(she has this illusion that I
am special) and it got to the laughable point she'd nearly do a strip
search checking for bloody areas. At least I have gotten over it for at
least the past 12 months or so. Hmmmm, perhaps I should go risk my neck
again..
On the helicopter side, there has been a lot of discussion about the
relative merits of different machines for touchdown autos over in
JustHelicopters forum. there are some pretty abrasive people there and
some who will jerk your chain just because, but if you can get past
that and learn how to navigate the posts, there is a plethora of deep
solid information to be gained.
Trying to think of the different helicopters I've done full down autos
in will include the Bell 47 series(lots of them), Hughes 269/300 (dates
me huh?), H-500 series, Hiller 12 series, Bell 206, UH-1,
R-22(yeehaww), Enstrom F28, probably some others that I can't think of
at the moment.
A technique we learned in the USMC while working down under was to just
simply roll inverted and autorotate for a rapid gain in altitude ; )
Merry Christmas y'all
Ol Shy & Bashful aka Rocky