Ben.geek.nz: Pilot lands helicopter without a tail rotor
Herb Christophers
· 1 year ago
Yes venison recovery is the commercial shooting of deer for export.
Stu
· 1 year ago
Dang that is impressive. Can you do this with helicopters normally? Or was he aided by the fact the R44 has a streamlined vertical cowling - does that act partially as a tail fin if you maintain forward momentum?
Ben
· 1 year ago
Yeah I have to admit I was pretty stunned too. I've read a lot about chopper flying, and I thought an auto-rotation was your only option. That implies that you have to land with at least some amount of body-rotation if you have no tail rotor.
I guess if you still have the engine, you have other options other than auto-rotation.
This link is interesting: http://www.copters.com/pilot/trfail_cruise.html Note the last comment "(that doesn't mean ignore the manufacturer, though)". So yeah I suppose the R44 manufacturers may mention that the body shape allows for some stability at speed?
Stu
· 1 year ago
Regardless you'd still have to give me a stiff drink and a reasonable sum of money to get in one of those things :)
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I guess if you still have the engine, you have other options other than auto-rotation.
This link is interesting: http://www.copters.com/pilot/trfail_cruise.html
Note the last comment "(that doesn't mean ignore the manufacturer, though)". So yeah I suppose the R44 manufacturers may mention that the body shape allows for some stability at speed?