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Ag with kids

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  1. This is SO true! I've worked with LOTS of helo pilots. Nick Lappos (Lead engineer for the S-92, he's in wikipedia) was AWESOME. The stories he told were badass. He had over 900 combat missions in Vietnam. He made the comment that he'd fired around 1 million rounds during his flights. And the test pilots I worked with had badass stories, too. Some were of combat, others were about training but holy shit they were funny as shit. I work with several Apache pilots now and they have some quite interesting stories of Iraq and Afghanistan...
  2. IMG_0587.mov Apparently I can't drag and drop from my MacBook photo app into here. Again...turn down the volume. This makes loud helicopter noises.
  3. Yes. Here's a video from when I was doing FTE work. NOTE: Turn down your volume.
  4. It appears all 3 carry 12 pax. Both are good designs. I'd almost like both to win. But, still biased towards the V-280.
  5. It's cool. Just pointing out that it's still in the competition phase now. Again, I admit to my bias for the V-280. The V-280 is smaller than the V-22 and the V-22 has no problem with LZs for the Marines so I assume that won't be an isse. I don't know if they have a wing fold version (see below) of the V-280 right now since the primary customer is the Army so they don't need to be on boats as of now. The Defiant is cool, with the contra-rotating rotors and pusher prop, but it can't achieve the speed of the V-280 (the 280 is there in the name for a reason). Helicopters always have that big issue with the reversed flow on the retreating blade and approaching shock waves on the advancing blades. The tilt rotors don't have this issue. I assume the Defiant slows the rotation of blades at higher speeds to help with this issue though. I doubt the Defiant is any more complicated than the V-280. Tomato Tomahto BTW, it's hard to believe that the V-22 is "40 year old tech" now.
  6. Counter UAS is HUGE in the UAS field.
  7. Well...they haven't won it yet. It's still between them and the Bell V-280. I'm a little biased towards the V-280, though...
  8. Yes. Losing a rotor would be VERY bad. You'd lose anti torque AND half the lift - but only on part of the aircraft. So, you'd either pitch up or down and start spinning... Yeah...hard to believe that the only thing holding the entire rotor on the aircraft is that one nut... And since we're talking about them, here's some cool videos of one:
  9. 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).
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. So...I did this shit too... Perhaps at a certain place in DFW???
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. Get the SWA Visa TODAY (it expires tomorrow). Then 3 months to spend $5K and you get 30K points AND a Companion Pass...
  16. 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...
  17. 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.
  18. Nope. I asked the mods to lock it for me. So, I have no idea why you tagged me.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. We lost a third of that in 20 years in A-stan...
  22. 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.
  23. 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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