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Old 8th Feb 2011, 03:35
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helisphere
 
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Nick, I have a question for you. When you are taking data with an instrumented aircraft specifically on VRS, does the aircraft have angle of attack or vertical airspeed (besides VSI/ASI) instruments? And what parameters do you then look at and analyze from the data?

I think it would be cool to instrument a logging helicopter at work. Might scare you manufacturing types though, I mean for the stresses your strain guages would record, I know it scares me. I don't know, maybe it's already been done but for airflow data and to see if they are getting closer to VRS than one might think.
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