SAS, just out of flight school, having wangled an assignment to the Test Board at Ft Rucker, I got to be instructed in the CH-47 by Boeing Test Pilot Jim Campbell*. Asking him re stall ( I had had two very realistic H-19 events post flight school ) in the Chinook, Jim said he had flown some of that work, and due to the lift split between the fwd and aft rotor, the aft operating with higher thrust, thus higher angle of attack, the aft rotor would stall first. He said it was therefore a sort of self-correcting situation: the aft rotor would stall first, the ship would go nose up, decelerating the aircraft and installing the rear rotor. That sound right?
* Heard later that unfortunately, Jim left Boeing for Air America and was KIA in SE Asia.
Your " CH-54 Pretend " flight might provoke some of the uninitiated to carp about failure to fill out a 365F Weight and Balance Form etc etc , and I thought you might comment re the very real issues of flying cargo in an active combat situation.
Last edited by JohnDixson; 11th Jul 2016 at 03:07.
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