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Old 15th Aug 2008, 14:09
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Nipper2
 
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I'm not working for the media here, but I have done at previous Olympic Games. Everything Jerry says is pretty much correct. I had the opportunity to watch the live feed from a race today and it was shocking. The footage was poor technical quality, horribly composed and edited and almost meaningless in terms of telling the story of a race.

Problems with the helicopters are only the half of it...

Now to get back on topic, can someone please tell this humble fixed wing pilot why when these Z9/365s take-off they pull slowly into a not-so-low hover (perhaps 100 feet), hang for a while and then ever so slowly push over into forward flight? They have a superb operating location with a long enough slab of concrete for me to fly my Tipsy Nipper from so it's definitely not a site limitation.

I was always led to believe you wanted to be low and slow for the minimum possible amount of time when flying one of these loosely connected sets of rotating parts. Have the Chinese also found a way to change the laws of aerodynamics?
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