Why do helicopters fly?
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Why do helicopters fly?
I was having a quiet beer the other day and got into a conversation with a woman who asked me "What makes a helicopters fly? "
After I gave her the text book spiel as to why they fly she simply smiled at me and said, "Really, I always thought they flew because they are so ugly the earth rejects them."
I just had to laugh
. Found out later her daughter was a fixed wing driver hence the quote.
After I gave her the text book spiel as to why they fly she simply smiled at me and said, "Really, I always thought they flew because they are so ugly the earth rejects them."
I just had to laugh
. Found out later her daughter was a fixed wing driver hence the quote.
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Lets think about that again... helicopters take more power to fly than fixwinged crap, don't they? From that we can pull: mother earth likes helicopters a lot more as they need more horse power to overcome the love that this beautiful planet has to helicopters... gravity 
Tell that to those fixwing think-a-likes, it should make them wonder why they fly that ugly piece of crap and not the beautiful helos.
And birds do envy them rotors
Evolution went from birds to planes to helicopters 
Tell that to those fixwing think-a-likes, it should make them wonder why they fly that ugly piece of crap and not the beautiful helos.
And birds do envy them rotors
Evolution went from birds to planes to helicopters
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But I read here, on this very website, that helicopters are so ugly that the earth repels them.
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Fixed wing are just too easy to fly to present any challenge to a real pilot - 'where shall I land today? I know, the same 4000' of tarmac I used yesterday and the day before that.'
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I don't really hold with the them and us debate but believe that the ability to fly is due to willpower at all levels.
the development of aircraft of all kinds has only come about by the willpower of a few people who saw the possibilities and refused to give up untill they had made them a reality.
Today those of us who fly have used the same willpower to raise ourselves up to the level of experience and acheivment that we dreamed of as kids. If at any point that will is overcome the goal will not be acheived.
To many the goal of vertical liftoff and landing seemed impossible and there were many failures which had to be overcome before the final success. Likewise flyers strive to overcome the groundfastness which is our natural state, and become at home in the air, ascending and returning at will.
the development of aircraft of all kinds has only come about by the willpower of a few people who saw the possibilities and refused to give up untill they had made them a reality.
Today those of us who fly have used the same willpower to raise ourselves up to the level of experience and acheivment that we dreamed of as kids. If at any point that will is overcome the goal will not be acheived.
To many the goal of vertical liftoff and landing seemed impossible and there were many failures which had to be overcome before the final success. Likewise flyers strive to overcome the groundfastness which is our natural state, and become at home in the air, ascending and returning at will.
