It's Friday!!!!
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Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
Add two door gunners and it becomes a Sword of Damocles and so freaking loud that you have to write down messages on a pad just to communicate with the guy next to you.
csb
Well-known member
+1. A plane could still, in theory and thanks to physics, "fly" without it's engine. A helicopter without its engine becomes a giant rock.
Wolverine
Uncanny Pompadour
Aha, but not so fast! Actually there is a thing called auto-rotation (?), where you can yank the stick on your big falling rock at the last second, radically tilting the blades to suck the last bit of kinetic energy out of them and create lift prior to crashing. My brother the ex-navy chopper pilot told me they practice it frequently and you can actually bring a 5 ton helicopter to a soft landing under no power... if you're good....and very lucky.
Now:
[SIZE=18pt]IT'S FRIDAY B....[/SIZE]
Oh no wait, that's tomorrow...
Ble_PE
I need a beer.
But it is Friday for me!!
:40oz: :multiplespotting: :bananalama:
arty-smiley-048:
:40oz: :multiplespotting: :bananalama:
arty-smiley-048:
Flyer_PE
Jr. PE / Sr. Company Pilot
I've lost an engine in flight and can attest to the fact that the aircraft will not immediately fall from the sky. I even managed to land at a nearby airport with no damage to the air frame. I will admit that the "pucker factor" was pretty high.
On helicopters, I was helping a mechanic friend perform the 100-hr inspection on a small helicopter (Robinson R22). While removing a main rotor blade, he refers to the retaining clip as the "Jesus Clip", explaining further that it's called that because if that clip lets loose in flight, you'll be meeting Jesus. I'll just stick with my simple fixed wing aircraft thank you very much.
On helicopters, I was helping a mechanic friend perform the 100-hr inspection on a small helicopter (Robinson R22). While removing a main rotor blade, he refers to the retaining clip as the "Jesus Clip", explaining further that it's called that because if that clip lets loose in flight, you'll be meeting Jesus. I'll just stick with my simple fixed wing aircraft thank you very much.
Dark Knight
Silent Guardian
Actually, many years ago during hurricane restoration works in my island we hired a company of aerial linemen from Pennsylvania. Since my English was least bad from all of us in the office I was assigned to work with them. I flew with the crew, three of them, every day for maybe 5 weeks. It was freaking awesome!!!!!!
We became friends and one day during a break the pilot told me about the auto-rotation maneuver. When they left because crews rotation my boss took my out of the helicopter, which I did not like until heard that the new pilot had to do the auto rotation thing near a lake. The crew was unharmed and the chopper lived to fly another day so...it works.
About the last part of your post...[SIZE=24pt]IT IS FRIDAY FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/SIZE]
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csb
Well-known member
I was pretty sure it was named the Jesus Clip because that's all you yell when it goes.
Pssh to all you Friday people. Although, I imagine you earned it.
Pssh to all you Friday people. Although, I imagine you earned it.
Flyer_PE
Jr. PE / Sr. Company Pilot
For the small clips we used in model airplanes, I had always heard them called either Jesus clips or dammit clips since they had a tendency to go spring loose and fly across the shop never to be found again. They were indeed called named for the first words uttered after the loss of said clip. It takes on new meaning when a larger version is all that stands between you and loss of a rotor blade.
Wolverine
Uncanny Pompadour
:redface:
wilheldp_PE
PE, LEED AP, SPAM KING
It's my Friday as well. I'm playing golf tomorrow...and Saturday...and Sunday.
FLBuff PE
Multi-disciplinary engineer
But it is Friday for me!!
:40oz: :multiplespotting: :bananalama:
*******S! All of you: *******S!
Master slacker
Something awesome.
'Bout damn time it's Friday. Now, I just have to survive the next 8 hours.
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
Bossless Friday is almost as good as a vacation day.
Almost.
Almost.
