On 11/04/2022 11:28 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes wrote:
If you lose a prop blade in a fixed wing, there's at least a chance of a
deadstick landing. With a copter, it's put your head between your legs
and kiss your ass goodbye...
A fellow we knew (sadly he has developed dementia in his
My favorite show is Air Disasters. Very compelling and fact-filled
analysis of what went wrong. Produced in Canada.
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/air-disasters
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 10:48 AM mitch--- via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> On 2022-04-12 10:27, OK Don via
On 2022-04-12 10:27, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
If you lose a prop blade in a fixed wing, the vibration will tear the
engine off the front of the plane and the massive imbalance will
prevent a
graceful descent. Same end result as in the copter.
Neighbor did that in a pusher prop UL. It
If you lose a prop blade in a fixed wing, the vibration will tear the
engine off the front of the plane and the massive imbalance will prevent a
graceful descent. Same end result as in the copter.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:29 PM M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
If you lose a prop blade in a fixed wing, there's at least a chance of a
deadstick landing. With a copter, it's put your head between your legs
and kiss your ass goodbye...
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 7:30 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> At least in a helicopter
At least in a helicopter you can autorotate.
-D
> On Apr 11, 2022, at 7:53 AM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I'm beginning to give fly-by-wire the same high regard I give to
> helicopters, i.e. I want no part of either.
>
> -MMM-
>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 9:32 AM Floyd
I'm beginning to give fly-by-wire the same high regard I give to
helicopters, i.e. I want no part of either.
-MMM-
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 9:32 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> oops
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVvgYQtDiI
>
>
> --
> --FT
>
oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVvgYQtDiI
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--FT
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...Personally, I question the design philosophy here -- if the plane
cannot be flown without accurate air speed signal, you'd damned well
better insure that you NEVER lose that data stream.
And you can't hand fly anything in the middle of the night at altitude in
bad weather.
RLE
