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| Thread ID: 110681 | 2010-06-28 00:57:00 | Strange thin helicopter | sammo450 (13626) | PC World Chat |
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| 1114053 | 2010-06-29 01:14:00 | Its thin so the bone head can look out both sides when doing an underslung load. You wont catch me flying in any intermeshed helicopter. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1114054 | 2010-06-29 05:37:00 | Inter meshing rotors so guess what happens if the transmission jumps a tooth CBD crash burn die. Those rotors are made of wood I'd be more worried about that. |
rebels181 (14841) | ||
| 1114055 | 2010-06-29 05:45:00 | Someone feed that thing, its at serious risk of floatin away at its current state | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1114056 | 2010-06-29 06:01:00 | More. (www.google.co.nz) :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1114057 | 2010-06-29 06:45:00 | This K-Max Helicopter is designed for heavy lifts. It is made by the same manufacturer, Kaman Aircraft, who made the Seasprite machines currently used by our NZ Navy. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1114058 | 2010-06-29 11:29:00 | Those rotors are made of wood I'd be more worried about that. Are you ******* kidding squire they are made from GRP. The Bristol Sycamore had wood MR blades, early versions of Bell 47 and Westland Wasp had wooden T/R blades. How many Sycamores are still flying? Answer less than zero. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1114059 | 2010-06-29 21:42:00 | "A total of 38 K-1200 K-MAX helicopters are known to have been built. As of May 2008, 13 of these were unairworthy or have been written off in accidents" Source = Wikipedia |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1114060 | 2010-06-30 09:17:00 | Are you ******* kidding squire they are made from GRP. The Bristol Sycamore had wood MR blades, early versions of Bell 47 and Westland Wasp had wooden T/R blades. How many Sycamores are still flying? Answer less than zero. For the helicopter's 7.3m/24-ft long composite rotor blades, Kaman uses wood laminate spars, based on technology dating back to the 1950s. Pickett explains that the company selected wood for its damage tolerance and fatigue resistance and to take advantage of field experience and qualification data amassed from a similar spar on its HH-43 helicopter, built for the U.S. Air Force in the '50s and '60s. Layers of wood are glued together with penacolite adhesive and carved to aerodynamic contour on a 5-axis NC machine. To enhance the spar's stiffness, unidirectional IM7/8552 carbon/epoxy prepreg tape from Hexcel (Dublin, Calif.) is bonded to the spar with Henkel Corp. (Bay Point, Calif.) Hysol EA 9394 two-part epoxy. Finally, the spar is wrapped in a dry glass cloth, which is wet out with EPON 828 epoxy, from Resolution Performance Products LLC (Houston, Texas). source www.compositesworld.com |
rebels181 (14841) | ||
| 1114061 | 2010-06-30 11:34:00 | I went here when I saw wooden blades www.aviastar.org STRUCTURE: Semi-monocoque fuselage constructed from 2024T-3 and T-4 aluminium; GFRP and CFRP rotor blades and flaps. Tail assembly weighs 36.3kg and can be removed quickly by two people. Rotor blades fold to fore and aft. But I apologize you were right and I was wrong. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1114062 | 2010-07-01 13:02:00 | It just featured on the Gone Fishing show on TV3. ZK-HEE Skyworks livery. Blades are made from one tree apparently. www.skywork.co.nz |
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