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any blackhawk experts, or crew members out there?

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any blackhawk experts, or crew members out there?
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:46 PM

I am dealing with a design problem, finding a home for something very near, and in fact in the shadow of the LH gunner's seat.   Trying to discern how that thing strokes on crash.   It appears it doesn't stroke straight down, but it appears it wants to stroke along an arc defined by the fixed length of the support tube.   Does anyone know?  (we can't just call up sikorsky and ask, unfortunately........not for free anyway)

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Posted by RotorRob60 on Friday, July 28, 2006 4:03 AM
Are you asking how does the seat stroke? The seats stroke straight down. There is a wire in each of the vertical seat tubes that is shaped like a clover leaf at the top. Two rollers per side are inside the side loops of the clover leaf with bolts through the them and the tube. The upper attachment hook is connected to the top loop. When the seat strokes, the rollers pull through the remaining 2 feet or so of coat hanger thick wire. The troop and gunner seats can absorb the energy of a 10G impact. Do not store anything beneath the seats in a 'hawk or it will be implanted up your backside in a crash!

Hope this helps.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 28, 2006 9:35 AM
thanks,  all we had to go by so far was a spec that basically says the same thing about nothing below the seat.  It's difficult playing in some other company's sand box........
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  • From: Georgia
Posted by Screaminhelo on Friday, July 28, 2006 8:43 PM
The wires below the seats and the seat struts work together to keep the stroke as vertical as possible.

Mac

I Didn't do it!!!

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