Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[FourWheelDrift]

Next level helicopter control, there is music over it too (warning)

[xeny]

Airbus' new high speed helicopter design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJAQ5cCF6c

With the stub wings, I am wondering how fast you'd have to go to be able to spin the rotor down.

[LotusOmega375D]

Like a little Fairey Rotodyne.

[Brother D]

"PLANE CATCHES ON FIRE! - PASSENGER TERROR AS WING EXPLODES! - AIRCRAFT BARELY MISSED ORPHANAGE AS IT CRASH LANDS BACK ON RUNWAY"!


https://www.thedailybeast.com/engine-engulfs-in-fl...


(Engine likely nom-noms bird on take off causing combustion instability, plane returns to airport).

[RizzoTheRat]

xeny said:

Airbus' new high speed helicopter design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJAQ5cCF6c

With the stub wings, I am wondering how fast you'd have to go to be able to spin the rotor down.

I'd guess they are running the rotor at pretty low speeds to prevent the retreating blade stalling. They claim it can cruise at 400kph, which is about the Lynx's speed record. I doubt you'd ever be able to stop it completely though as the blades wouldn't be strong enough. The Sikorski X-Wing was intended to stop the rotor complete but had much thicker blades, and demonstrated flight without the blades fitted, but I'm not sure it ever actually flew with the X wing.

[CanAm]

Brother D said:

"PLANE CATCHES ON FIRE! - PASSENGER TERROR AS WING EXPLODES! - AIRCRAFT BARELY MISSED ORPHANAGE AS IT CRASH LANDS BACK ON RUNWAY"!


https://www.thedailybeast.com/engine-engulfs-in-fl...


(Engine likely nom-noms bird on take off causing combustion instability, plane returns to airport).

Link not working for me. Displays 404 error message.

[Oilchange]

At a high speed you’d have to have a high rotor rpm, not a low rotor rpm to prevent retreating blade stall. The slower the rotor rpm at a given forward speed, the closer it comes to stalling in the retreating direction.

[FourWheelDrift]

The last USMC Harrier airshow display.

[LotusOmega375D]

I used to take those Harrier displays for granted. I lived in a flat exactly on the centre line of the Southend airshow, so they would hover directly in front of our balcony. We would usually get an RAF one and a Navy Sea Harrier. Each would have a practice display on the late May bank holiday Friday or Saturday and then the Show proper on the Sunday and Monday, so 6 Harrier displays each year. The vibration used to blow our sealed double glazed windows.

These scanned photos were taken from our balcony about 25 years ago.

[InYaMooey]

LotusOmega375D said:

The chimneys gone now

[RizzoTheRat]

Oilchange said:

At a high speed you’d have to have a high rotor rpm, not a low rotor rpm to prevent retreating blade stall. The slower the rotor rpm at a given forward speed, the closer it comes to stalling in the retreating direction.

Good point, now engaged brain.

[Oilchange]

At least thats my understanding from rotary PofF which I did in 2008 lol

[Baron Greenback]

https://www.youtube.com/live/X1nw8sFUUog?si=eflBvt...
LIVE: English Riviera Airshow 2024
Odd link is not work me

Edited by Baron Greenback on Saturday 1st June 15:13