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  1. Ag with kids
    Well, it's still the exact same concept. They don't have tail rotors, though. In the case of the Kamovs/Kamans, they use contra-rotating rotors (two rotors rotating in different directions on the same or close the same axis). They're spinning in opposite directions. This negates the torque induced spinning of the fuselage and eliminates the need for a tail rotor. The Vertol has the rotors rotating in opposite directions to counteract the torqued, but not near the same axis. The V-22 does the same thing (as does the Bell V-280 and Leonardo 609).
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    I hated that description of what a tail rotor does. It's pretty vague and doesn't give you much of an idea HOW it "stabilizes" the aircraft. The tail rotor is an anti-torque device. Making the rotor spin in one direction causes the aircraft fuselage to spin in the opposite direction (Newton's Third Law and shit). The tail rotor is there to counteract that tendency for the fuselage to spin by thrusting in the opposite direction. THAT is how it "stabilizes" the aircraft. It's why helicopters start spinning when bad shit happens to the back end of it...
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    Well, you described all helicopters, here... It would have to be something REALLY aggressive though to make the rotor flap that much. Also for y'alls viewing pleasure...
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    So...I did this shit too... Perhaps at a certain place in DFW???
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    I made 2 and bought the other 7. Those are the ones I raised. I also may have fathered your kids...she was easy those evenings...
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    Apparently, your shittastik inclusion of me in that post has broken the CR block I'd requested. I asked for it because anything I post on here will be neg repped. And that's bullshit. I had one poster literally go and neg rep posts I made on Food and Travel and Lulz...probably about 50 neg reps. Just because, I guess a) I'm an Aggie and/or b) I'm not a liberal. I haven't posted on here since last year...until you fixed the glitch...so I want a fucking red Swingline stapler out of this deal...
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    Get the SWA Visa TODAY (it expires tomorrow). Then 3 months to spend $5K and you get 30K points AND a Companion Pass...
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    Back when I worked in the missile world, I worked on the MLRS program. They had rocket that dispersed [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Destroy_ARMor]SADARM[/url] rounds that would float down on parachutes. They had sensors that could detect targets and then fire projectiles down on them. Enough KE to penetrate tank top armor. Cool concept. It's been discontinued, though...
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    Interesting...didn't realize this post was in CR. I can't select CR from the list of forums, but apparently I can reply to a notification. Going to have to get them to fix that glitch. I don't want to interact in this cesspool.
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    Nope. I asked the mods to lock it for me. So, I have no idea why you tagged me.
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    You're a douchebag? I have zero idea why Im tagged here. It can't be any CR reason because I had the mods lock me out from there.
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    The ICDS (Inter Connected Drive Shaft) will shift power in the event of a SINGLE engine loss. You can easily fly with just one engine. But, just like all aircraft, loss of ALL engines is different. As long as you have enough potential and kinetic energy, you can dead stick it in while in airplane mode.
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    We lost a third of that in 20 years in A-stan...
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    The support HMX-1 birds are V-22s. Badass for lots of things but autorotations aren't its forte. Luckily, you can just land it like a fixed wing, knowing full well the rotors are exploding during landing.
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    a) As the saying goes: Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics. Trust me, logistic lines are of HUGE importance in the planning of anything we would do. ii) With the drones, counter UAS is a HUGE thing in the industry, both military and commercial. Knowing some folks who have worked on the military side, there's a lot of scary things we can do for C-UAS.
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    Most...but not all...helicopters can autorotate if they lose engines. It's not a complicated process, but it IS one that has to be recognized very quickly so that the collective can be dropped in time. Then, it is kind of like gliding. However, Robinsons have low inertia rotors which make an autorotation more difficult. Pretty much all Bell products are designed to be easy to autorotate because they have high inertia rotors which slow down a lot slower when power is removed. You also have to watch out for being in the "Dead Man's Curve". In this area, you either don't have enough potential+kinetic energy or altitude to recover from many problems. That being said, losing the tail boom is pretty much a death sentence. Two of my pilot friends died in 2016 doing flight test when the tail boom separated.
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    I've got 150 hrs as an FTE in a 412. It was an experimental helicopter used by Canada's NRC (their version of NASA). We flew some experimental control laws so basically the aircraft was being controlled by a laptop in front of me while I monitored a bunch of Simulink strip charts. Fun times. I was actually in the simulation modeling group so being able to get in a real helicopter was pretty cool for me. I've got well over a 1000 hrs flying the various simulators... PM me your cousin's name. It's possible I know him.
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    Ah...it was a Robinson. Every single test pilot I worked with at my last job said they'd never get in one of those. And these are people that fly experimental helicopters for a living.
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    And you're flying in the dead man's curve...
  21. Ag with kids
    Hey!!! We don't all have fat wives. Some of us just bang South Austin's mom and that's traumatic enough to give you PTSD.....
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    I'd hit it. Stick, Dick
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    Wrong post to quote...
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    FIFY... I don't know that the military would actually follow through on that order, though. I'm sure there are people in the chain of command that would, but are they in charge of the actually launching?
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    They're soory.

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