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Old 8th Oct 2018, 12:33
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As in hardness. Do you read anyones post?
- Gray, I do so love being trolled by you..................The thread had been about damage to a rotor blade from a drone when you stated there would be a difference between what the damage would be to an R22 blade compared to a 214 blade - I postulated that at 500kts there probably wouldn't be much difference, ie that they would both be trashed, even though the Bell blades anecdotally can survive contact with small trees in clearings.
From this point you have stated that the batteries actually aren't that hard and have now introduced your camping hatchet to show that it will chop through both a tree and a battery - and this is relevant how to a rotor blade being hit by a drone????

Do you think that a rotor, R22 or 214, will be substantially damaged by impact with a drone or not?
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