DREAM MACHINE

[widgeon]

There was an amusing thread on just helicopters someone announced a new helicopter was to be presented at HAI with the worst features of several helicopters put together.

If we could have helicopter which was a composite of all the best features of the available helicopters who would provide what ?
catagories are:-
Power plant
Anti torque system
Main rotor head.
Main gearbox.
Seats.
Flight controls.
Wiring
Flight instruments.
Avionics.
Tech pubs.
Spares and tech support.

[helidrvr]

My vote for powerplant goes to Caterpillar:





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[Thomas coupling]

My recommended power plant would be the hydroponics variant: mundacious marejawanna...






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Thermal runaway.

[This message has been edited by Thomas coupling (edited 18 January 2001).]

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[EESDL]

Instead of numerous Tec Pubs, what about just one Theme Pub?

[widgeon]

OK it guess I asked for it , I have been reading German and French manuals for so long that english speak can I no longer correctly. BTW can any one tell me what a german engineer means when he talks about a frog formation ? , 100 pprune points to the correct answer.

[greenarrow]

A frog formation generally follows a crab formation (same day same way!).

[Ancient Pelican]

I believe a frog is what American's and German's and our British cousins call a Frenchmen. Slang as in Yankee and Kraut and Limey. So would a formation of frogs be a dichotomy in terms.

[noaltitude]

I'll go for seats by "Recarro" Got to be better than those 1 and a half hour pain between the shoulder blade r22 seats

[widgeon]

Froschanordnung german word for frog formation what we would call an oil can. Condition where sheet metal skin between stringers or frames will pop in or out of countour with light pressure.

[SPS]

Let's have all the power afforded by an early 70's 280 shark, then the TR drive of a Rotorway. Give it the TR authority of a H269
A model and the correlator/throttle backlash of an early B47, and its VNE to go with it.

R22 (did I say R22!?) doorlatches and door pins and that little map reading light...

We could put the carb heat where it is very hard for the instructor to reach it (this one anyway)and close enough to the mixture control for Bloggs to need protection from himself afforded by a plastic tube...

I could go on.....I probably will!!