Aviation Forum / General / Rotary-wing / June 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS3bVqcq_0&search=helicopter
Looks like a two seater (tandem) CH-7 Kompress.  Anyone with details on
this flight?
Monk

I'm back up in west central Minnesota for the season. Looks good and
plenty of work with nice big clean fields to spray. Helicopter just
came out of a 1200 with new engine/trans/blades and misc other high
speed parts. What a great way to finish out over 40 years of crop

Over on the rec.aviation.military forum a discussion got
around to the doppler effect and/or helo rotor blades, and
the following exchange took place:
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I just purchased plans for the Little Wing, and am trying to get an
idea of how many of them are flying.  I really like the idea of a
tractor configuration, but there just aren't many of them around.
Thanks,

Here's one for the pros:  I was balancing my tail rotor and had it down to
0.27 ips and still had just a touch too much weight where I had added it.
So still needing to safety wire a bolt that is located in the center of the
tail rotor output shaft, I chose to safety it to a hole ...