R44 loop - latest Robbie bashing thread
R44 loop - latest Robbie bashing thread
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I guess some guys never listen or learn
R44 Pilots Operating Handbook - Section 2 - Limitations: Aerobatic flight is prohibited!
Wasn't there a 407 in SA that did a very expensive loop on camera a couple of years ago!? Bell made them change parts worth around $ 1 mil after that one.
Wasn't there a 407 in SA that did a very expensive loop on camera a couple of years ago!? Bell made them change parts worth around $ 1 mil after that one.
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I'm quite sure that is a model helicopter and by the sound it just might be jet turbine powered.
BTW it is perfectly easy to loop a model helicopter with a teetering head rotor system. You just need lots of speed before entry otherwise you dont make it around before getting a mast bump - which isnt serious as the masts are usually solid steel and they wont break very easily.
I cant think of a real helicopter with the required grunt.
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BTW it is perfectly easy to loop a model helicopter with a teetering head rotor system. You just need lots of speed before entry otherwise you dont make it around before getting a mast bump - which isnt serious as the masts are usually solid steel and they wont break very easily.
I cant think of a real helicopter with the required grunt.
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A number of "real" helicopters have the "grunt" to pull a loop. The first recorded on film was 1949, an S-52
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BTW it is perfectly easy to loop a model helicopter with a teetering head rotor system.
If you must loop .. then this is how to do it:
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...and this is how not !
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...and if anyone wishes to copy the actions of Dennis 'The Maestro' Kenyon's antics, as seen on Savoia's link, just remember even Maestro's cock it all up eventually!!!
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Someone mention mast bumping?
The s-58s did it too!
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Cock-up
Yes, the Salt Lake City accident surely qualifies as a master cock-up, and just goes to prove that even after that particular 'wing-over' manoeuvre had been publicly performed around two and a half thousand times, a small drop in self discipline and peripheral awareness bites back hard.
SLC airfield ... 5,800 ft ASL, temperature +96 degrees F ... So just to say please don't try this at home without some guidance from a qualified DAE. Best wishes to all loopers. Dennis K.
SLC airfield ... 5,800 ft ASL, temperature +96 degrees F ... So just to say please don't try this at home without some guidance from a qualified DAE. Best wishes to all loopers. Dennis K.
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Loops
Oh ... and to keep the record straight, the video clip embedded by Savoia was the Enstrom version of a Loop performed at North Weald. The accident Salt Lake City Sikorsky 300C manoeuvre was a 'nil power wing-over.' For the uninformed - not a lot of difference perhaps. DRK