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Old 27th Oct 2007, 13:00
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Graviman
 
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Slowrotor, they're called oleos and are designed to absorb most of the energy from a full autorotation descent (with seat stroking limiting decceleration). For the mass of a chute you could design the rotorhead to have multiple loadpath structural redundancy. Tail rotors, and associated structure, seem to be the achilles heel.
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