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Old 4th October 2005 | 15:10
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muffin
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From: 5 nM S of TNT, UK
The 5 mins or so it may or may not save you can be well eroded by the cost of blades contacting the airframe (sailing) or contacting your scon.
Pardon my ignorance, but if you are sitting in the aircraft and your blade starts to sail, what can you do about it? Your reaction time plus the rotor brake actuation time will be too slow I think.
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