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Old 24th Aug 2019, 02:12
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JimEli
 
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Originally Posted by Droop Snoot
A quick search reveals the UTTAS crashworthiness requirement is a 42 ft/sec vertical sink rate.
The test case shown had an approximately 3 second drop time, which equates to 144 ft altitude, and 96 ft/sec sink rate at impact (ignoring vertical drag and Chinook downdraft).
at design MGWT 16825.
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