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Old 4th Oct 2018, 06:11
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The video damage you show is of a fixed wing, that was most likely travelling about twice or three times the speed of a helicopter if not more...
and the tip speed of an average helicopter will be in the region of 400kts - in the hover - add in a cruise speed of 100 kts and the impact speed (on the advancing side) could easily be 5 -600 kts.
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