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real H model downed by nylon kite string!?!???

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  • Member since
    August 2004
  • From: Maryland
Posted by Chief Snake on Thursday, May 3, 2007 10:55 AM

The gyroscopic stablizer bar on the top of the UH-1 rotor system is a key component in balance  of the forces exerted on the controls. If something causes this to bind, the control response becomes disrupted and when trying to land that's a pretty bad time to get a flight control malfunction. Be it known that crossbow arrows fired from below into the belly of UH-1's caused deaths and injuries to crewmen and disabled flight control linkages ( in the belly) to the point the aircraft either made emergency putdowns or crashed. They also punctured fuel bladders and caused fuel emergencies. The fuel bladders were manufactured to a standard of self sealing after a hot small arms round penetrated the bladder, not a crossbow stuck in them and maintaining an opening.

 

Cheif Snake 

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: phoenix
Posted by grandadjohn on Thursday, May 3, 2007 8:56 AM
Anything that can get into flight controls and bind then up(the rotor head) can cause a crash and sometimes it doesn't take much
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    April 2007
real H model downed by nylon kite string!?!???
Posted by Bounce19712 on Thursday, May 3, 2007 8:18 AM

http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23372

 

I didn't think that would bring down a helo.....

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