Way back when one summer I had an internship at NASA Langley. They did
not tell me where I would be working, I just showed up the first day for
orientation and we got our assignments. I got sent over to some offices
in one of the hangars where the research aircraft lived, to a guy in the
Rotor Systems Research Branch.
So we sat down to chat awhile, he was a nice guy. At some point he
asked, "So what do you think about helicopters?" Being a rather honest
and unfiltered kid at that point (now I am older and honest and
unfiltered) I say, "Well, every time I see one I wonder how long it will
be before the thing shakes itself apart."
He kinda looks at me and says, "I guess you probably won't want to work
on them then, doing flight tests and stuff like that." I thought a
minute, become somewhat terrified I would have to do that, and said, "No
not really." So he walks me down the hall to some guys doing similar
stuff but with airplanes, and I landed there for the summer. A few days
later there is all this uproar that one of the helos had to make a hard
landing at some little airport out in the middle of nowhere Virginia
because some rather significant part failed and they had to put it down
quickly before it did fly apart. Someone got hold of the part a coupla
days later and one of "our" guys had to fly it down there in one of the
other airplanes along with a mech to fix the thing.
My neighbor across the road has an oyster roast and Q every year, last
year (and a coupla years prior) 2 Kiawah a**holes landed their
helicopters (Robinsons) in a field by his house, in amongst the trees.
Dangerous as hell and blowing stuff everywhere. After a while they
left, then made some low passes over the marsh and creek, about 20ft
high. Again dangerous as hell. They did not come this year.
--R
On 4/13/16 11:22 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote:
On 13/04/2016 9:11 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
I took a helicopter ride of the Vegas strip last night. We found a
Groupon so for 3 of us it was only like $60 each for about a half
hour ride. Now I want a small chopper.We flew in a Robinson R44 II,
looks like new they run half a million clams. With a cruising speed
of 130mph I could cut our travel time to camp from 8.5 hours to
probably 3...
-Curt
The husband of a lady that used to work for my wife, is an engineering
professor with a specialty in metalurgy.
His view of helicopters is that it is not if they will crash, but when.
RB
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