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Forum: Rotorheads
7th Jul 2010, 10:21
Replies: 1
Views: 970
Posted By thekite

Mosquito

I understand that a Mosquito XEL was involved in a fatal crash in Florida on July 4th.
Hardly Professional Piloting? Lets hear what you've got anyway.
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Jan 2010, 10:04
Replies: 27
Views: 6,655
Posted By thekite

First job

Being a licenced maintenance engineer, and aeroplane cpl I had 3 job offers even during training. :ok:

Fine for me, I had been in the industry for a long time.

But now semi-retired I have...
Forum: Rotorheads
28th Dec 2009, 11:35
Replies: 35
Views: 15,029
Posted By thekite

Top End Torque Nigel Osborn Ron Shortis Edelsten memories

Edelsten "owned" an Enstrom which was flown by that pilot who was not paid, but whose name was Don ????

Edelsten probably did not own it but his pilot overpitched it at the base of the mountains...
Forum: Rotorheads
28th Dec 2009, 11:02
Replies: 12
Views: 2,591
Posted By thekite

tet from the kite

We must swap Hiller stories some time!

Mine broke bolts, and it tore bolts out of the tailboom too at the universal joint bearing. It sheared its alternator drives and fried its ludicrous nicad...
Forum: Rotorheads
27th Dec 2009, 10:37
Replies: 9
Views: 2,069
Posted By thekite

Experimental Helicopers

Channeling.... channeling .... Igor Sikorsky.... get back Charles Darwin; heard from your timorous chums before. Who is that.. Wright?... Orville was it?.. No,, Wilbur??? Harry Houdini?

This a...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Oct 2008, 22:16
Replies: 402
Views: 147,708
Posted By thekite

Thumbs down Blasted Computers!

According to "The Australian: newspaper this morning a "computer malfunction in the elevator system" was - if not the whole story - at least a factor in the incident.
Seems that the aircraft pitched...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Oct 2008, 21:05
Replies: 402
Views: 147,708
Posted By thekite

Danger Pan or Mayday?

I have "Mayday"ed twice; once because the smoke coming up the windscreen persuaded me that I was on fire, and the second when I saw so much smoke from a trawler below that it seemed to be on fire. ...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Sep 2008, 12:59
Replies: 45
Views: 14,399
Posted By thekite

gauge, (guage)

Hey tet I'm back!
Can you tell me why pilots; and engineers; cannot spell the simple word gauge?
My theory is that because any word starting with q is always follows by a u, gauge, gauge is often...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Sep 2008, 12:48
Replies: 31
Views: 6,171
Posted By thekite

500D

If you savour your motocross experience you will love the 500D
If not you will not savour the back seat passenger who punches you out after the flight!

Yes pilots love it but anyone not carrying...
Forum: Rotorheads
15th Jul 2008, 21:23
Replies: 52
Views: 7,205
Posted By thekite

thekite

Angus houston's comment that the pilots are cowboys is hardly fair. Yes the pilot executed a flairing turn into a downwind position and apparently just fell through the resulting vortex ring. But was...
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Jan 2008, 09:51
Replies: 6
Views: 10,785
Posted By thekite

Local Hero in Pennan

Fabulous movie and cast and the location of course was the town of Pennan.
Was only reviewing the pics yesterday from a shoot there in 2006.
Although I lived in ABZ for 5 years, until '06, I was...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Dec 2007, 12:56
Replies: 72
Views: 12,707
Posted By thekite

Hillers: getting back to wierd little helicopters:

I had the experience of the heli snapping nose down into a vertical dive when I was at no great altitude to start with.

Flying with geological teams in the South Austalian deserts, I will never...
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Nov 2007, 10:08
Replies: 24
Views: 3,797
Posted By thekite

Heli Spy

I did the same flight test as you, except that I did the test in a JetRanger on low skids. Hydraulics off occurred every flight, as did a no-flare touchdown auto. Thing that baffled me was the...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Nov 2007, 10:44
Replies: 30
Views: 4,139
Posted By thekite

Music to Fly by

Neil Diamond's "SkyBird" to anything fun, Hughes 500 low and fast across the Gibson Desert, Yak52 diving through/past Top End CBs STRAIGHT DOWN full throttle, a Harley up Arthur's Pass....
Or a 25'...
Forum: Rotorheads
20th Nov 2007, 21:45
Replies: 143
Views: 33,256
Posted By thekite

VRS

Like Twin Huey Man I got my VRS education in a Robbie.
At the factory instructor course I happened to mention, in flight, that I could only occasionally achieve this elusive VRS at >300' + <30kts....
Forum: Rotorheads
20th Nov 2007, 07:41
Replies: 6
Views: 1,397
Posted By thekite

Out of Whack

Doesn't only happen here. I did all of my ATPL/IR exams in the UK predicated on flying a jumbo across Europe, at 400 kt, then proceeded to toddle across the North Sea at110 knots
All this after...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th Nov 2007, 10:36
Replies: 23
Views: 4,218
Posted By thekite

Flatstick

I would agree with Flying Binghi, although I have never flown an R44. It is a bigger machine, and laws of physics cannot be ignored! The smaller and lighter, the more agile.

Hyperbole I know; but...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th Nov 2007, 06:43
Replies: 23
Views: 4,218
Posted By thekite

Flatstick:

Please do not think that the brochure figures for the 300 have anything to do with reality. Except, as tet says, in the world of the flat earth society. :rolleyes:

The reason why R22s are almost...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Nov 2007, 11:24
Replies: 14
Views: 5,884
Posted By thekite

Fergus

I suppose then that we are talking about PB. If so I am sorry to hear it. I met him once at MKT/Darwin, and was impressed by the man.

I never had time to ask him WHY gyros?

To me gyros occupy...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Nov 2007, 11:05
Replies: 23
Views: 4,218
Posted By thekite

Flatstick!

Please do not buy a 300.

They cost a great deal of money and burn a great deal of fuel at a low speed to make a loud noise doing nothing in particular.

For all the troubles Frank may encounter...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2007, 21:14
Replies: 14
Views: 5,884
Posted By thekite

Man dies in gyrocopter crash Nov 2007, Australia

A crash in Northern Victoria killed one and severely injured another occupant in this morning's Australian newspaper. Both were badly burnt.

Well that will happen wont it when your fuel tank is...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Nov 2007, 20:53
Replies: 42
Views: 11,211
Posted By thekite

tet

No, did not see a bible, although if divine intervention was involved, it might explain why Stanley Hiller never saw reason to fit chip detectors.
tk
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Nov 2007, 09:19
Replies: 155
Views: 29,637
Posted By thekite

TET

Nice phrasing: how did it go again - was it "fresh clean, beautiful air through the rotor system" - well put! Do you moonlight as a poet? :D

Nice too about lever down, cyclic fwd-- not unlike...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Nov 2007, 06:38
Replies: 42
Views: 11,211
Posted By thekite

Helifixer; or is that Reverend Helifixer?

Are you always so parsimonious? Looking for advice on PPrune is incredibly worth while. :=

I recently was advised (thanks to Eric Ferret) what was wrong with the Hiller I had been flying in 1981,...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Oct 2007, 07:49
Replies: 2
Views: 2,668
Posted By thekite

Bell 407 Aerobatics

A client has sent us a video clip of some rather ordinary aerobatics in a new
B407-WITH a note that Bell also saw the clip, identified the aircraft:
AND HAVE GROUNDED IT FOR LIFE! :=
Anyone else?...
Forum: Rotorheads
28th Oct 2007, 11:12
Replies: 58
Views: 10,197
Posted By thekite

belly tank

I do believe that I used to work for your distributor, and well believe your account of his reaction (Hi Lindsay) :=

However, Frank is a totally different matter and will go for a fix, if I know...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Oct 2007, 22:21
Replies: 44
Views: 7,043
Posted By thekite

the ferret

YES! You just described the situation exactly.
Hard to believe, but the 12E was relatively new in Australia in the 80's.
I could not find a soul who could help me, and my boss sacked me for asking...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Oct 2007, 08:48
Replies: 44
Views: 7,043
Posted By thekite

theferret

Oh dear, the smugness of a non-flying engineer.....
thekite
Forum: Rotorheads
20th Oct 2007, 11:27
Replies: 44
Views: 7,043
Posted By thekite

Wee-wa, Gyroscopic Nutation, ,,!!

I'm clearly going to have to do further studies! Any suggestions re further reading material?

As a training aid for students, I used a bicycle front wheel to illustrate the effects of gyroscopic...
Forum: Rotorheads
19th Oct 2007, 03:20
Replies: 44
Views: 7,043
Posted By thekite

Thanks Graviman

I guess I will to read your message a few more times before it makes sense to me! I'm sure you are right, but the matter puzzles me. :confused:
thekite
Forum: Rotorheads
18th Oct 2007, 11:26
Replies: 292
Views: 96,271
Posted By thekite

Modes of address

I was a flying instructor at the time that I read "Chicken Hawks".
I had had instructors myself whose normal instructional patter was along the lines of "Get the f**** power in you ###!" or almost...
Forum: Rotorheads
17th Oct 2007, 06:33
Replies: 44
Views: 7,043
Posted By thekite

No mast bumping-BUT!

Given that a fully articulated rotor cannot experience mast bumping under zero/negative G, there is another matter which may "curtail the curious" in the exercise of these manoeuvres.
And that is...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Oct 2007, 11:16
Replies: 27
Views: 5,994
Posted By thekite

My Way or the Highway

Get back to work, Puller of Pitch and other things, or seek a change of carreer.

:= Case dismissed!

I mustered in H300s and even today can walk up to one, blindfolded, and tell you a horror...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th Oct 2007, 12:25
Replies: 33
Views: 4,055
Posted By thekite

Let there be water!

Of course there is another aspect and this with the weight all the other way.
I was asked to fly with a giant geologist with his giant old fashioned camcorder when I had only landed to refuel...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Oct 2007, 03:56
Replies: 27
Views: 5,994
Posted By thekite

Pulling pitch and other things

:ugh:
I rest my case. Read the report.
ATSB B20040292
thekite
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