Re: Got lucky at the drive thru

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:44:57 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-13 2:30 p.m., Ed P wrote:

On 4/13/2025 12:36 PM, dsi1 wrote:

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A helicopter is a vehicle with thousand of parts trying to rip itself
apart. I think a drone type of configuration would be much safer. I
guess we'll find out if this is true.
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The one that crashed in NY came apart.  The rotor came off and video
showed it gently spinning to the ground.

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I  didn't realize they had video of the rotor coming off but came across
it. Holy cow. It was just moving along and all of a sudden the rotor
separated from the helicopter and the body immediately plunged into the
water. It hit the river pretty hard and then the rotor came down. I
can't imagine anyone surviving the initial impact so I would expect that
they were dead before they would have drowned.

The rotor hit the tail boom and severed it. Losing the rotor or the tail
boom is pretty much instant death.