Originally Posted by
Thrust Augmentation
This confuses me a bit, my naive view was that with a very reasonable power to weight ratio & at least what appears to be plenty of agility that it would be a contender of sorts?
The inner child say that it's it's the fastest & can go upside down - what else would you want.
Upside down depended, to some extent, on the gearbox fitted. Briefly upside down might be a better description. And gutless hot and high. And in the days of the IFTU she had a propensity for tearing the tail boom and rotor off.
All that said a whole lot of fun; it was when they stopped leaking oil that you had to worry.