Theoretically, if nothing is wrong other than no power. It has to be one of those dark and brooding pilots though, to know exactly when to put the brakes on descent by turning rotor speed into lift just before the big bump.
On Dec 31, 2011, at 10:54 , Steven Desjardins wrote: > Can't a helicopter autorotate down if the engine fails? > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:42 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: "Daniel J. Matyola" >> >> >>> I took a course in aeronautics. I understand how fixed wing aircraft >>> fly, but helicopters are still a mystery to me. >> >> >> >> The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's >> nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual >> events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter >> does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces >> and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any >> disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; >> immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding >> helicopter. >> >> This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an >> airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, >> clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts and helicopter pilots are brooding >> introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has >> not happened it is about to. >> >> — Harry Reasoner, 1971. >> >> Helicopters don't fly....they beat the air into submission >> >> - Anon >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. Joseph McAllister [email protected] The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. Photons were one of the earliest particles to develop, but I don't think any were able to escape for a little bit more. Once they could, there would have been a flash during expansion. No one would notice, of course, for another 4.2 billion years. Now we are trying to catch up by looking out, and back in time to that infinitesimally small fraction of a millisecond in an attempt to see what caused that singularity to become the Big Bang. This attempt will fail in any visual way, as the furthest galaxies and elements are now moving faster than light by recent theory, making the information sought beyond a theoretical event horizon. — update to the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
