Hello Nick,
I wrote that to throw a spanner in the works.
I am a Newtons person myself, the old hand out the window of a speeding car does it for me, or any other ideas that get the point of helicopter aerodynamics across in an educational way.
So many of the younger pilots of today have little to no idea how these confangled machines work. This is in plain evidence by the posts that are put up.
Very frustrating at times when a basic aerodynamic question is put and so many off the planet reasons are put forward.
They fly, they fly the same way every time, fly one you can fly them all, (if you can start them),
I have enjoyed your posts for a long time because it gets told as it is. Yes I am an old person approaching the happy end of my career.
Performance you can add up and calculate but helicopter flight is still some thing that you understand in the back of you mind.
i4iq,
you know the old saying......... if God had really wanted us to fly he would have given us wings............
We got the helicopter instead.
Now bugger off with this religious crap.
Last edited by deeper; 21st Dec 2006 at 22:52.