PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Police helicopter crashes onto Glasgow pub
Old 22nd Jan 2014, 21:09
  #1891 (permalink)  
henra
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: PLanet Earth
Posts: 1,333
Received 104 Likes on 51 Posts
Originally Posted by Robin400
Why has nobody made me aware the starter generator provides the electrical power and not a generator driven by the rotor accessory gearbox.
Because it makes no difference whatssoever.

The rotor System of an EC135 in operating conditions will have a stored energy the order of Magnitude of 3-5 MJ.
That is 5 Million Watt Seconds. So a 1600 Watts Night Sun would run for about 1 hour with the energy stored in the rotor.

Would you be so kind and stop pursuing this totally pointless path?
henra is offline