Just about the weirdest helicopter

[helosailor]

As he's holding the starter down he's watching the Tot's or TGT's to raise and fall before he injects any fuel. HArt starts are no bueno!

This is true! Hot starts are very no bueno. Worst I ever had was an APU hot start. Big blast of flame out of the APU exhaust followed by a nice little stream of burning JP5 running down the side of the aircraft. Luckily it was put out before it did any significant damage.

Pretty cool but I would be nervous to fly in it. I know they probably did their homework on the design, but I would not be able to get the thought out of my head about the rotors hitting each other. Kind of like zombies; I know it's probably not going to happen but it still scares the piss out of me.

Same here. I trust engineers and all, but wow. Same reason I was never really comfortable flying in an H-46 (well, that and the 46 has a nasty tendency to catch fire).

[scootro]

it's like shooting a bullet through a propeller!!!

[tribaltalon]

so how do you fly it? does it still have a collective/cyclic/pedals like a standard helicopter?

[helosailor]

so how do you fly it? does it still have a collective/cyclic/pedals like a standard helicopter?

Looks like the controls are just like most others. I don't know why they would be different.

[BERNIE MOSFET]

This is true! Hot starts are very no bueno. Worst I ever had was an APU hot start. Big blast of flame out of the APU exhaust followed by a nice little stream of burning JP5 running down the side of the aircraft. Luckily it was put out before it did any significant damage.


Same here. I trust engineers and all, but wow. Same reason I was never really comfortable flying in an H-46 (well, that and the 46 has a nasty tendency to catch fire).

I was never afraid to fly until I became an engineer.

[onemeangixxer7502]

Looks like the controls are just like most others. I don't know why they would be different.

pretty standard, the counter rotating blades are for directional control

[anthonydavis4188]

It seems to be a scary helicopter. Imagine what would happen if one of the propeller stops working by some reason. Then the other one would either cut the obsolete one or both would get cut. I find this design to be a faulty design. I am not sure this is any good to designs that we have currently.

[helosailor]

It seems to be a scary helicopter. Imagine what would happen if one of the propeller stops working by some reason. Then the other one would either cut the obsolete one or both would get cut. I find this design to be a faulty design. I am not sure this is any good to designs that we have currently.

[SSMAN]

Meh, I seen two dragon flies fucking while flying, let's see it do that.

[AdRock]

That's what I call an interference engine if I've ever seen one.