Touchy touchy Chukka, good thing there are no knife weilding smilies to choose from here eh , else i'd be looking like
Nope wasnt a R22 bashing thread or a hook to starting one.
I was just interested to see what IYHO was what you considered a safe helicopter when it came to small helicopters, why the R22 did I choose to ask ... because it was mentioned in this thread ...maybe if someone had said something about their Rotorway, I would have asked you if you would have flown that..... it was a question not a dig...sheese
Also being a engineer, I dont like the way some small helicopters are put together either, it just seems a little too basic for me too.
Now, saying that I would not like to fly the Helicycle or the Rotorway either.
I liked that show A Chopper Is Born , that guy has some skills..humor..tools...cash LOL
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So much fun the helicycles designer died in one/Why did the R22's designer die in one?.... LMAO what the hell was that supposed to mean LOL
smartass.
No Frank is alive and kicking, infact met him at a party last month in florida and spoke in detail of the R22 and other small personal ( non trainer designed) helicopters, in regards to design issues positives and negatives.
Though having pointed that out that the designer died in the helicycle ( I didnt know that , interesting regardless of how coldy you offer the info ), The R22 has an amazing safety record as well doesnt it.
And as stated by Frank, the R22 was not intended for training in mind , it was designed to be a cheap personal helicopter for experienced pilots.
Besides it seems that alot of the designers dont put their butt in an aircraft they design, they employ test pilots that are involved in the design processes that risk ( and at times, lose their lives testing aircraft ) then designs are improved and retested and so on and so forth.. blah blah blah.
SO to spell out the question you took so darn personally if you still are missing the point of the original question... Does this mean that because there was a death in the helicycle you would not fly the R22 due to that fact that there have been the odd death in that aircraft?
I think you could put down the gloves and just have a conversation like the rest of the big kids.
HF