To: Ancient Pelican
I have a copy of the blue book sitting in front of me right now. I have been quoting from it for several days now and many of the participants on another thread state that it is wrong. I told them that if I were proved wrong in quoting from the blue book I would crash and burn and Sikorsky would accompany me on the ride down.
When I first worked at Sikorsky the blue book had about 20 pages and Ralph Lightfoot wrote it. Now the latest version that I have has 100 pages and is written by John Montgomery and is dated 1964. That shows you how much their understanding of helicopter flight theory has expanded.
Thanks for the offer.
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The Cat
[This message has been edited by Lu Zuckerman (edited 26 January 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Lu Zuckerman (edited 26 January 2001).]