Huey Auto Rotation in Samoa

[Trev]

Here's a photo of one of our Hueys doing a power off Auto rotation over in Samoa.
Each of the Hueys in this photo is an individual photo stitched together. The software is pretty good. You've got to look real hard to see the joins



sorry about the small size of this, photobucket keeps auto sizing it. The full size is over 3000 pixels wide

Trev

[spongebob206]

Cheers Mate,

Well done, nice work

Remember talking to a pilot many moons ago in a SAR op.
Explained how you can shut down, lift off, rotate 180 deg and set her down. Pretty much though he was full of it, until he proved it the next day.

The might of those huge rotors

[Bandit]

Real nice there Trev. Great work.

Spongebob - If you haven't already read it, get hold of Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. There's some interesting stuff on the power of those paddles in it.

I was on a SAR in the Pohangina River (Ruahines) many moons ago and we got lifted out of a tiny side creek. I remember thinking at the time "hope we don't have a failure, cos there ain't no room"

Guess that's why they have exercises.

[2fst4u]

QUOTE (spongebob206 @ Sep 2 2009, 03:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cheers Mate,

Well done, nice work

Remember talking to a pilot many moons ago in a SAR op.
Explained how you can shut down, lift off, rotate 180 deg and set her down. Pretty much though he was full of it, until he proved it the next day.

The might of those huge rotors

apparently they generate so much lift that they can fly with a meter of the rotor lopped off each end without hassell.

nice pic btw

[spongebob206]

QUOTE (2fst4u @ Sep 2 2009, 06:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

apparently they generate so much lift that they can fly with a meter of the rotor lopped off each end without hassell.

nice pic btw

That happened with the WAW Huey a few yrs ago.

landed safely after losing a ft of rotor.

Sadly crashed later with a tail rotor failure killing all on board.

Thanks, have heard so much about chicken hawk, must read it. have seen a doco with the author, very impressive