PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - 6 Crashes in 4 weeks
View Single Post
Old 6th Apr 2005, 09:20
  #4 (permalink)  
alwaysinverted
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: close to the sun
Posts: 131
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The Rotorway Scorpion Helicopter suffered total engine failure with 2 on board. The owner/engineer/agent was doing a demo flight when the engine suddenly quit after a loud bang. He autorotated, but upon landing the blades had lost so much inertia that they contacted the tail boom and the cockpit causing some damage. Its now going to have to undergo some extensive repair work.

The pilot did a good job getting the machine down without injury to himself and his pax. Well done R.
alwaysinverted is offline