Sick joke alert ..

"Well pissed off, I spent

 

I heard a few others today.

Maybe a car enthusiasts forum isn't the best place for such 'jokes'...

 

Dunno;

It's be in much sicker taste one one of those greenie-pedophile train-fancier websites.

 

Uh?

You been in the boozer???

 

But the McCans & Pavarotti are fair game?



I can't believe he only won the title once.

 

Nah, same principal as the word 'nigger'.

We can; they can't.

 

Sad news indeed.

Don't know enough about the figures on helicopters crashing, but the most obvious thing that stands out for me is that a fixed wing is just that, a fixed wing so at least if it goes wrong you can glide it into the ground, a rotary wing just drops out of the sky like a brick.

 

You can glide a rotating wing to the ground, too; air hitting the leading edge will cause them to rotate sufficiently in order to generate lift.

It's just a rather shorter journey though & if your bearing/control plate is seized, you are totally FARQed.

 

It's called auto-rotation, I think.

It relies on the pilot yanking up on the collective lever at just the right moment before hitting the ground, causing the blades to momentarily generate lift and slow the rate of descent a bit. Your timing has to be spot on though, from what I understand. I think it also relies on the pilot being able to react quickly enough to disengage the rotor when the engine dies in the first place.

All in all though, I'd prefer to be in a fixed wing light aircraft than in a helicopter if I was going to have a complete loss of power.....

 

All in all I'd rather be in the house in a complete loss of power than in anything that can f**king fly!