bit remiss of me to never have studied the R44 crash reports in detail. do they report tanks ruptured or do they report how tanks ruptured with a sequence.
R22 flex plates are now all much stronger than the initial items, so very rare to see flex plate breakage.
Now i know nothing at all about lightweight body armour etc, plenty of people here would, whats wrong with glueing some strips of such material in the high risk areas which will still remain even with bladders?
seems easy enough to contain turbine blades nowadays doesn't it?
cheers tet