Aviation Forum / General / Rotary-wing / May 2006

Landing a heli on Everest at 29,035 ft? And it's a regular single
turbine AS350????
http://www.eurocopterusa.com/Media/News/NewsDetail.asp?ID=329
I didn't think they could get that high, let alote hover or take off.

A Russian helicopter crew turned into a real emergency when the chopper
crashed. The accident happened today at an island between Russia and
Japan when an amphibious helicopter landed in the water and tried to
take off again. The chopper tipped over and its rotors hit the water,

The rear transmission support on a UH-1, is this one support mostly for the
twisting action of translational lift ?  Or is it more of a vibration or
shock unit. As it is only held in by (8) -3 bolts it hard to think of any
real support.

Some friends bought me a really spiffy coaxial RC helicopter for my
birthday. Holy canoli these things are a stinkin blast! A little humbling at
first too, it took me a while to figure out the trim hickamajobs, and flying
one without it being trimmed is damn near impossible. I ...

The Golden West Fly-In is coming up June 8-11 at Marysville CA.  It should
be a good one as they have gone out of their way to solicit rotorcraft
participation.  Gyros and Helicopters will be welcomed and supported.
As the Rotorcraft Chairman I am available for information and ...

I'm looking for a book to understand how helicopters work. After a
search on amazon.com, I found the following:
Wagtendonk - Principles of Helicopter Flight
Leishman - Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics

If you were there, you know what I mean.  If you weren't there, I'm sorry.
The first annual, they are already planning for the next year, Central
Sierra Helicopter Meet was a resounding success.  13 helicopters showed.
Schweitzers, Bell 47, Baby Belle, Ultrasports, Helicycle, a ...

Weather has been -for lack of a more appropriate term - shitty here
lately.  The "June gloom" has come early once again with morning fog
and low clouds..  Had two ships scheduled for me and a buddy to take
two of our coworkers for $200 pancakes and we were thinking Mother

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So I've been in Torrance at Robinson Helicopters for the past few days
while I attend their factory safety course..  Pretty much all stuff
I'd seen/studied before for the 1st two days, but today was
interesting as we got some detailed info on the maintenance aspects of