Originally Posted by
mary meagher
Seems to me as a "plank driver" that the only things holding up a heli are the rotating wings, so if the nut holding that assembly together fails, it doesn't make a very good glider.....
That's why the nut holding the rotor on is called the
"Jesus Nut", named so for the benefit of Rotoronin and the Darwin crowd.
Regarding gliding, have you ever seen these?