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3 very interesting Helicopter Landing Crash Videos
3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page.
I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here happened at the landing. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html |
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3 very interesting Helicopter Landing Crash Videos
"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in
message ... On 30 Mar 2006 15:19:36 -0800, wrote: 3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page. I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here happened at the landing. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html 1st one looks like a tail rotor strike or failure as the tail rotor isn't spinning after the 1st half turn. Wonder what happened to the crew member who bailed/got ejected..... 2nd one was pure pilot error.. Came in too fast and too low, got hung up and executed a perfect dynamic rollover. 3rd one appears to be tail rotor failure. 2nd & 3rd vids, I've seen before. I've got them saved. The 1st is new to me and very impressive. I don't get the impression he had a tail strike but obviously a tail failure. He rolled pretty badly and was able to right the helicopter (something I wouldn't have thought possible) and managed to keep it level for a revolution or so before rolling it again and finally contacting a main blade with the ground. I never got the impression that he cut power. Did he freeze on that or does it take that long for a turbine to wind down? I have watched turbines do hovering throttle chops and it didn't seem like they took that long to power down but I don't know if that's true of all machines. Just wondering. Fly Safe, Steve R. |
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3 very interesting Helicopter Landing Crash Videos
wrote: 3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page. I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here happened at the landing. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html Ugh!! those were ugly. The first one made me think that the pilots should have just accepted a poor landing instead of grabbing collective when the tail started to slew. If they'd unloaded the rotor at that moment instead of loading it way up, they would have been okay. The second one was just waayy ugly. He needed to grab collective, and didn't for some reason. The third one looked like there was nothing the pilot could have done. Best for him to just unload the rotor and put it on the ground FAST. Guess the moral of 1st & 3rd stories is that if you've got the anti-torque to the floor, and its still going the wrong way you better just unload the rotor if you're at all close to the ground. It just gets worse from there. Don W. |
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3 very interesting Helicopter Landing Crash Videos
Don W wrote in news:csdXf.7240
: wrote: 3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page. I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here happened at the landing. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html Ugh!! those were ugly. The first one made me think that the pilots should have just accepted a poor landing instead of grabbing collective when the tail started to slew. If they'd unloaded the rotor at that moment instead of loading it way up, they would have been okay. The second one was just waayy ugly. He needed to grab collective, and didn't for some reason. The third one looked like there was nothing the pilot could have done. Best for him to just unload the rotor and put it on the ground FAST. Guess the moral of 1st & 3rd stories is that if you've got the anti-torque to the floor, and its still going the wrong way you better just unload the rotor if you're at all close to the ground. It just gets worse from there. In the second one, if you look closely, he caught a wheel in the net around the flight deck. When he pulled collective, it tipped him over. The wheel eventually pulled free, but too late to save it. Dave in San Diego |
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