Originally Posted by
SASless
Uplinker,
In your video....that was a Sikorsky S-58T that had the tail rotor drive failure.
. Thanks, I wasn’t sure, hence my question mark.
The failure we see in the 169 under discussion was a very different kind and far more critical than that shown in your video.
It was a loss of thrust in the video and just the opposite (apparently) in the 169 crash.
The 58T was a drive shaft failure.....where the 169 was far more complicated a failure.
Fair enough. As I stated, I am not a heli pilot, but I was trying to explain to Ahernar why single rotor helis need a tail rotor, because they seem to think a (single rotor) heli can fly and land without one.