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Old 29th Mar 2006, 00:07
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Disguise Delimit
 
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Crazy to fly away from the ground while spinning. If you don't keep it perfectly level, you get roll coupling (horizontal spin becomes a vertical spin) and then you are stuffed.

Once any vertical spinning starts, the show stops. A Bell 47 in Sydney demonstrated that one a few years back, trying to fly away from a tail rotor failure at low speed, to get streamlining to stop the spin. The rotation became more vertical, and the result was an uncontrolled crash into Goldfields House and a 400 foot drop to the street, instead of a more controlled sploosh into the harbour on floats.
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