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wrote in message ups.com... Beav You guys always make me laugh with your wry sense of humor! Born of necessity Rocky, it's ****ing down with rain and there's no food on the table 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) Get her some new glasses Kid:-) and it got to the laughable point she'd nearly do a strip search checking for bloody areas. You could also get her a part time job at the local jail. 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.. Well *I* bloody well would:-)) 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. I can take chain jerking in my stride. 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. How did the UH-1 compare to all the others? (apart from the R22) I've not DONE a full down but I've been in numerous heli's when they have been (Enstrom, Bell 47 with the stab bar removed, and the R22) and the Enstrom was wonderful. Not quite so the R22. 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 ; ) Works everytime. :-)) Merry Christmas y'all And the same to you and yours Beav |
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