Interesting helicopter landing

Probably not the SOP.

 

Probably. I hadn't come across it here so thought
it was worth sharing. Never mind, move along,
nothing to see here.

 

According to the comments it was a failure of the tail rotor
due to overly fierce landing angle.

 

I'd put money on the pilot clattering the floor with the tail rotor. It
tends to **** things up *just* like it does on that (very old) video.


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But did the chap who bailed down the under carriage at about 11 secs in,
get chopped to bits with the rotor the second time round.?

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It was ginger when I posted it earlier this year.

 

Not that I heard about and that sort of information is usually the first
thing to surface.


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Beav

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This one looks similar - that is tail rotor
gets knocked off on ground and then it
gets dizzily exciting.

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/Heli-in-snow-crash.wmv

The Alexis Park Inn site has many aviation
related videos.

This one is pretty weird, chinook self destructing.
Really, poof she is gone.

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-2-10_Ground_Resonance_Side_View.mpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_resonance

 

Not seen that one.

Think I've sen that one, but not the rear view.

Dangerous things, Chinooks.

I followed up a link to Wikipedia and it's to do with lead-lag hinges,
apparently. They say that two-bladed helis don't need them, which
surprised me.

 

I liked this one. As an added bonus, it's Swedish. I've really gone off
the Herdi Gerdies after the last one I met. <shudder>

 

All this just reinforces what I think of helicopters. If Dog had meant
them to fly, he'd have given them wings. I ask you, when was the last
time you saw a pidgeon with collective?

 

Apparently, pigeons go pop if you happen to run one over. Not as big a
pop as a Gull though, apparently.

A Pigeon does have collective, as in it can alter the angle of attack of
its wing, like a heli.

 

I think sir will find that pidgins have been doing the flying thing for
a touch longer than helicopters and do not have a disk but have evolved
a wing or rather two wings and those wings are equipped with variable
geometry at that and they do seem somewhat less inclined to just fall
out of the air as those with a mere collective.

 

Ooo.. That's got to have hurt.

 

Yeh, they have been flying for a little longer. The amount of moving
parts and the opportunity for something to go ping fuckit in a heli
prevents me from being very excited about flying in one.

 

Over the past few weeks, I've had this urge to learn to fly helos. I
hope it passes.

 

And me, seeing as ground resonance affects 2 bladed heli's FAR more than
articulated rotor headed heli's.


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The've got wings, but they've not seized up like plank wings..

I ask you, when was the last

I've heard, but never seen a pidgeon.


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Beav

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Heli's would DEFINITELY fall out of the sky without collective and I'd much
rather be in a helicopter if the donkey quits, than in a plank.


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Beav

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Model ones are somewhat fun and safer, if you don't crash into anyone,
or yourself, or no bits fly off.