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Old 3rd Dec 2013, 11:29
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Originally Posted by cattletruck

If the machine came down with an extremely high G landing you would also expect the rotors to slap down and end up slicing the throttle quadrant off the roof of the cabin and the tail boom off the back, damaging the rotors in the process.
Not if there was excessive blade coning prior to impact and not if there was minimal rrpm.
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