Aviation Forum / General / Rotary-wing / April 2007

Curious thought while noodling early on a Sunday a.m. (0600). Anyone
else here ever been injured while flying a helicopter? Perhaps its
splitting hairs but twice now I've broken a finger getting out of
them. Landed my Hiller 12E crossways on irrigation rows to wait for my

I heard, somewhere, that if you apply full carb heat and then
immediately lower the collective (on R22s and 44s)this can cause the
engine to run rough and in extreme cases can even cause engine
failure.I s there any evidence for this or is it just a silly rumour?

Besides the autorotations done in and for training pruposes, how many
of you have had to do an unplanned auto as in engine failure,
mechanical failure, or other in flight difficulties?
I've had at least five over the past 40 years just while doing aerial

aluminum control tube failed causing helicopter crash.  The helo had an
anodized aluminum control tube that failed in fatigue with less than 400hrs.
The loading was low producing stresses in the area of 460psi.  Discussions
with anodizing folks say "Never anodize flight critical ...

Weather going to sh.t and I had to make the runway with winds blowing
40kts and cloud deck down to 200. what to do...WHAT TO DO.. and I
remembered my old USMC instructor telling me to just go inverted and
autorotate to get some altitude. Broke out on top, rolled right side

As a former employee of the U.S. Army Aviation System Command at NASA
Lewis
who was played into the position by CIA plants then thrown out of
society resulting

Will there be a wake for
RAR?  Maybe an Irish wake?
Stu Fields
Experimental Helo magazine

Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS President Mark W. Decker, let me tell
you about this lowlife who was fired:
Starts the workday between 9-10AM by checking work and personal email.
Come 11-11:30AM, he's getting ready to go to the local gym to work

I heard via the rumor mill that Bell has cancelled the 417.  Also
heard that Bell has crashed 3 of the new armed recon helos and the
Army is concidering cacelling the contract.  Anyone have any new on
the above taopics?

FAA NTSB Report
Date: 18 MAR 2006
Time: ca 14:48
Type: Beechcraft C.99