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Old 29th May 2002, 05:58
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Barannfin
 
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I was just wondering at what speeds the conversions from helicopter to plane are and how they go about that.

Also about pilots having to push their aircraft in battle, I would have to say that the people who I have talked to and thinking about it myself, if you are underfire you wanna make yourself as hard a target as possible, coming down on approach to your LZ at a nice 40kts and not being able to manuever sounds pretty restrictive to me, And scary. Sure the A/C shouldn't be flown outside their limits but if the limits are this restrictive it just doesnt seem to lend itself well to combat.

Just my 2 cents.
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