evangilder
"Shooter"
The technical term for it is autorotation. After having been in a helicopter that did one one, I call it a sphincter tingler! We got down okay, but not without alot of shouting!
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I just did one the other day as part of a test flight. They are not that bad once you get used to them.
evangilder
"Shooter"
Well, I did it once, and that was enough for me! Like I said, we got out okay, but we landed really hard.
Yes, if the gearbox or drive-shaft screws up then the blades will be able to touch. If the engine fails on a Chinook it can still bring itself down with auto-rotation.
It doesn't happen often, or they wouldn't let the Chinook fly. Anyway, I wasn't directing the attack at you, it was at CC. Anyway, as I said, and you know, if your gearbox is screwed up, your helicopter is screwed up and you're not going to be going any long distances...
It doesn't happen often, or they wouldn't let the Chinook fly. Anyway, I wasn't directing the attack at you, it was at CC. Anyway, as I said, and you know, if your gearbox is screwed up, your helicopter is screwed up and you're not going to be going any long distances...
plan_D said:Yes, if the gearbox or drive-shaft screws up then the blades will be able to touch. If the engine fails on a Chinook it can still bring itself down with auto-rotation.
It doesn't happen often, or they wouldn't let the Chinook fly. Anyway, I wasn't directing the attack at you, it was at CC. Anyway, as I said, and you know, if your gearbox is screwed up, your helicopter is screwed up and you're not going to be going any long distances...
Ofcourse you can, its called an autorotation as I stated in an earlier post.
I did not say it happens all the time, I said it happens more often then you think. It is possible my friend and I have seen it in Kosovo. Fortunatly the aircraft was just at a 5ft hover when it happened and no one was killed.
As I said on a Blackhawk as long as you stay over 80 knots you can technically land the aircraft without you tail rotor or with a failure in the tail rotor gearbox. Just technically though and I would not want to try it all.
No offense tanken plan_D I was not getting hostile with you, just responding to your message.
Nonskimmer
Captain
My uncle rode in Chinooks occasionally when he was in the Airborne, and he had nothing bad to say about it. Just that it was damn loud, but that was a given.
No I have never done and autorotation in a chinook. I do them in Blackhawks all the time as part of test flights (never done one because of a dual engine failure or other emergency). In the Blackhawk it really is not that bad, it is unconfortable for the first couple of seconds and then after that you just see the whole world coming up really fast.
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cute corporal
Airman
hi guys - just had another two great weekends away...cant wait for tewkesbury...autorotationios great with two men, a chick and a rampant rabbit!
bwah hah hah *evil laugh*
bwah hah hah *evil laugh*
Nonskimmer
Captain
Alrighty then. 
Medvedya
Master Sergeant
No - I said before, it's orange squash.
Medvedya
Master Sergeant
So does Cocaine....
Crippen
Senior Airman
Well that explains it 'ALL'.
I'm a 'Dandilion Burdock' gal
I'm a 'Dandilion Burdock' gal
Medvedya
Master Sergeant
'tis nice - used to be able to get it in the chip shop in Lancashire.
Nonskimmer
Captain
I'm all too familiar with dandelions, but what's Dandilion Burdock?
