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Web Quantum Computer SimulatorWeb Quantum Computer Simulator 06/15/2004 01:16 PM [Blutch] Network Simulator[Blutch] Network Simulator 03/13/2003 08:38 PM bns Two die as US helicopter crashesTwo die as US helicopter crashes 01/23/2004 11:01 PM Two US pilots are killed when their helicopter comes down in north Iraq, the US military says. The helicopter checkrideThe helicopter checkride 12/17/2004 06:36 PM Last Friday I took a checkride to add a Private helicopter rating to my Commercial pilot's certificate. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will, in theory, examine applicants for this rating but in practice prefers that you pay a Designated Examiner. The fun started at 9:00 am in Nashua, NH at CR Helicopters with Joe Brigham, a retired legend in the cranberry bogs of New England. The oral portion of the exam lasted until nearly 11:00 am at which point the winds had picked up from calm to a typically unpleasant New England 10 knots gusting 15. When the objective is to hold the helicopter steady within a foot or two of a reference point on the ground these kinds of winds make life tricky, especially in the Robinson R22, one of the world's lightest helicopters. Running the startup checklist on the R22 takes about 4 minutes during which one tests the engine's dual independent ignition systems, the carb heat, the sprag clutch that enables the rotors to freewheel if the engine quits, and the low RPM warning horn that sounds if the blades begin to slow down. The test complete, I called Nashua Tower to ask for clearance to a grassy area east of the paved 5500'-long runway. Once we got across the runway Joe asked to see a sideways hover taxi then a backwards hover taxi. These are done with the skids of the helicopter 3-5 feet off the ground. I set the helicopter back on the grass and Joe asked me to pick it back up. When we were 2' from the ground he twisted the throttle on his side of the ship to idle, simulating an engine failure. The helicopter immediately started a yaw to the left. I pushed the right antitorque pedal to bring the nose back to where it had been pointed. As the R22 settled towards the ground I pulled the collective pitch control to use some of the rotational energy of the blades to cushion the impact. Every time you pull more collective the helicopter wants to yaw to the right so I had to step on the left pedal. We thumped down on the ground about 1 second after Joe had closed the throttle, reasonably smoothly and within about 5 degrees of where we'd started on the heading. The standard for a Private rating is 10 percent and Joe declared that I had demonstrated a hovering autorotation. The next maneuver was the Quickstop, simulating an attempt to take off and then an abort due to failure to clear trees or the appearance of an obstacle. We had to get over to the side of a small hill about 1000' away. I accelerated the helicopter to about 40 knots and 40' above the ground and then pulled sharply back on the cyclic to flare off the speed while simultaneously lowering collective to prevent the helicopter from ballooning up in altitude and using the antitorque pedals to prevent yaw. At the end of the Quickstop Joe asked for a running landing to simulate bringing the helicopter down at a high altitude in which the machine lacks sufficient power to hover. We slid into the grass. We were near the hill at this point so it was time to demonstrate slope operations. One approaches the slope at a 45-degree angle with the helicopter yawed so that the skids are parallel to the slope at all times. You hover so that the upslope skid is about 2-3' above the ground and then gradually lower the ship until the upslope skid touches. At that point you push the cyclic into the slope to lock the skid against the slope while simultaneously adjusting collective pitch to hold a level attitude. After pausing in that position for a moment I lowered the collective to bring the downslope skid into contact with the ground while simultaneously adding addition cyclic towards the upslope to keep that skid locked. Slope operations complete we started with a normal takeoff and normal approach. Unless you are all by yourself in a Blackhawk you don't take off straight up in a helicopter. You bring the ship up into a hover and then push the cyclic forward until the helicopter is flying fast enough that the blades are biting into fresh undisturbed air. This is called "Effective Translational Lift" (ETL) and the helicopter rapidly picks up speed and then altitude beyond this point. The normal approach and landing is a reasonably shallow angle coming down toward some traffic cones abeam the Nashua windsock. Once back on the ground Joe asked for a maximum performance takeoff in which one does try to depart as nearly vertical as is possible. This involves spending some time under the R22's "deadman's curve", a combination of having a low airspeed and a low altitude such that it would be impossible to make a smooth landing in the event of an engine failure. Joe asked for a steep approach to the cones. This is not straight down as you might think but rather just steep enough that you could clear the trees around a mid-size field before landing on someone's helipad. Next up was an autorotation. This involves closing the throttle about 700' above the ground and gliding down at about 65 knots and 1500'-per-minute descent rate. Starting roughly 40' above the ground I began to pull back on the cyclic to slow our forward speed and reduce the descent rate. When the forward speed was just about gone I leveled the ship with the cyclic so that the tail did not strike the ground and began to let the R22 sink towards the ground with just a bit of forward speed. At the last minute I pulled the collective to cushion the final impact with energy from the rotating blades. The final part of the checkride was escaping from a vortex ring state. Joe took the controls and slowed the helicopter down so that we had lost almost all forward speed. Then he lowered the collective to start a 500 foot-per-minute descent from our 700' altitude. The helicopter began "settling with power" into its own disturbed air, falling suddenly much faster than the initial descent rate established by Joe. The controls became mushy just as he said "You have the controls". The way to escape from a vortex ring state is by pushing the cyclic forward to try to fly the helicopter forward out of the disturbed air while simultaneously lowering the collective so that the helicopter isn't beating the air so hard. Once I had recovered some flying speed I pulled on the collective to resume a climb. That was it. What can one do with a Private helicopter rating? Take friends for rides, basically, and that's about it. I'll be starting work on my Commercial rating next week. Helicopter AnthropologyHelicopter Anthropology 02/10/2004 02:44 AM Today was my 20th and last hour of helicopter instruction in Panama (tomorrow morning I'll get on an American Airlines flight to Toronto, staying at www.metropolitan.com). After a couple of autorotations in which one learns how to land the helicopter after the engine quits we proceeded up the Rio Chagres. This is a national park, established to protect the rainforest in the Canal's watershed. In the past few decades Embera Indians have moved up from the remote malarial province of Darien, on the border with Columbia, to this region where the jungle environment is the same but access to health care and tourism jobs is much easier. Our approach to the little village of grass huts involved flying up the center of the twisting river, about 10' above the water, at 50 mph. Steep hillsides with big trees constitute the banks of the fast-flowing Chagres and constitute a bit of a distraction for a beginning student. Thanks to the lack of development in Panama one is safe from powerlines, those perennial killer of helicopter pilots, but we rounded a couple of corners to find people motoring along in dugout canoes. The little Embera village that we visited contained 84 people from 17 families, each of whom lived in an elevated grass hut. A traditional anthropologist might spend God knows how long paddling around looking for this village and then 12 months living here in one of those huts. The helicopter anthropologist sleeps in an air-conditioned bed in a modern hotel overlooking the Canal, takes a 30-minute flight into the village, and waits for Johnson, the one resident who speaks English, to come down towards the riverbank as the rotors spin down. Here's what we learned... The Embera sustain themselves by catching fish in the river, killing wild pigs in the surrounding rainforest, growing some crops, and harvesting various wild plants. They manufacture their own clothing, which is nada for the young kids, a loin cloth for the adults, and a beaded bikini top for women. They make some cash by guiding cruise ship passengers on package tours and selling them handicrafts. Technological comforts are limited to three hours of electricity per night and one channel of broadcast television that can be received through a gap in the ridge. Cable and Wireless, the telecom monopoly that has been restricting Panama's economic growth (it cost $7 to make a one-minute phone call from my hotel to Canada), installed a pay phone around which the Embera built a thatch phone booth. It has been broken for six months. There are no shops. You can't buy bottled water, Diet Coke, or any other packaged food. At the center of the village is a single concrete building: the schoolhouse. The Panamanian government sends a teacher out for the wet season so that the children learn Spanish. Imagine the dedication of this woman, a Latino from Panama City, to live in such a small isolated community in which many residents speak only the native Embera language. [http://www.photo.net/philg/digiphotos/200401-panama-embera/ has some snapshots from the trip] Mi-24 helicopter in AfghanistanMi-24 helicopter in Afghanistan 07/07/2004 04:43 AM Custom paint job on Afghan Hind attack chopper .. Mean Looking Mil 24 Hind .. Quote: .. images usaattacked.com/mi-24_helicopter_in_afghanistan.htm How not to land a helicopterHow not to land a helicopter 03/23/2005 01:19 PM David Pescovitz: 
This video may be old news, but I'd never seen it before. A military
helicopter tries to land on a ship and, well, fails.
Link to 2.6mb WMV file (Thanks, Michael-Anne
Rauback!)Along those same JG Ballardian lines, the House of Rapp has a gallery of links to other aircraft crash videos. Lin k Helicopter FuckHelicopter Fuck 08/16/2004 02:15 PM 
Please don't try this at home. You may have spotted Japanese web
oddity Micky Yanai's -- um -- work on Rotten.com. Now, Fleshbot has more
on "the most creative porn actor who invented 'Helicopter Fuck!'," as
one fan-site enthusiastically proclaims. Male pattern baldness mullet.
Bad '80s novelty sunglasses. Spandex. Sequined American flag codpiece.
If that doesn't add up to buzzkill, I don't know what does. Lin
k to Fleshbot item, which includes pointers to "Helicopter
Fertish" (sic) galleries. NSFW, duh.Upstart Raising GMAT Simulator 1.3.2Upstart Raising GMAT Simulator 1.3.2 09/06/2004 08:48 AM A online GMAT simulator that is complete with all three sections. Nano-Hive Nanospace SimulatorNano-Hive Nanospace Simulator 05/15/2004 03:51 PM Nano-Hive Nanospace Simulator 1.0.1 Released Grok Description matches for RC Helicopter Simulator 1.0.12 GrokA matches for RC Helicopter Simulator 1.0.12 Helicopter rescue from waterfallHelicopter rescue from waterfall 08/29/2004 01:45 AM A girl and her father are winched to safety after falling into a river below a waterfall in mid Wales. Saudi Commandos Free Hostages in
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