206 Tail Rotor Question...

[Reddog]

Here's another one for you'all.

 

On the Kuwait / Iraq border after the first Gulf war a 212 crew landed at UN HQ in Umqasr to pick up the UN Commander to transport him to Kuwait city for a meeting. Unbeknownst to the crew the local devils brigade of pint sized slingshot shooters scored a direct hit on the leading edge of one of the tail rotor blades. Off the 212 went to Kuwait city returning and landing after dark. No one noticed anything amiss until the next morning when Sharkbait went out to DI the machine and comes running back into the hangar with tales of people shooting at our a/c. Out we all went and sure enough there was a hole big enough to put two fingers into without touching the metal and the crew said they hadn't felt a thing.

 

Go figure.

[Nomex]

#### - You're right, it was.

[Zazu]

No vibration-good

 

vibration -probably bad, land, ask.

 

Tail rotor on-good

 

Tail rotor off-bad

 

Tail rotor hurt ie, dented, creased, separated,piece missing,hole! - BAD, land, show and tell, think hard, walk home if neccesary.

[leadingedge]

Ryan

 

The Cars, that I use is the one on CD Rom.They are comming out with yet another more friendly version I am told very shortly and includes update CD's.

 

Avialable as a subscription, a good thing to have in the arsenal. I think its about 99 bucks, and is also on the net, but you will find that most bush camps and other locations are usally short on the internet access. You pop it into the laptop and voila! It alsom has a key word search function.

 

L.E

[cyclic monkey]

Ryan was talking about the book "CARS in Plain English" by Phil Croucher, a handy paperback that works well even where there is no Internet, requires no laptop, costs only about $39, and is written in terms easier to understand than the original Regulations from Ottawa.

 

An excellent alternative to CD ROMs or several folders of paper.

[Elvis]

Try this

 

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Ite...on=books&zxac=1

 

:elvis:

[cap]

CM ----- good call. Phil does an excellent job in many books on getting rid of the "baffle-gab". I'd recommend any of them.

 

Phil ----that will cost you one very tall "Latte" from Second Cup when we meet again.

[helidude]

Just to give you an idea of how tough Astars are, I have pictures of three M/R blades that came off a red, white and eastern owned (calgary based) Astar that was involved in a "discussion" with poplar trees in the early 90's. All three blades were scrapped and one of them had nothing left on it except the leading edge and the spar for 75% of the its lentgh. When we weighed the three blades, that one weighed 11 lbs less than the other two!!

The A/C flew about a 1/2 mile down a mountain with those blades before hard landing in a creek bed.

Amadeo can fill in the details if he likes. :up:

 

This Astar was about 6 months brand new!!!

[twinstar_ca]

doesn't all this go to show that somedays, your ride will do what it can to get you down to terra firma when all **** is breaking loose!!! why else do we always get told to fly the aircraft 1st and foremost while we do everything else...

 

the history of aviation is filled with stories of lancs, daks, hueys, 206's and 350's that made it down before the chips do...

 

i think that as has been said often already, no one would expect to fly with a t/r blade you can stick anything through, but when it gets you down to the ground, maybe give it an extra pat of thanks it did... :up:

[Squirrel]

another Astar story - a B1 did a quick stop over the ocean - west coast BC - due to wx, was too low & tail went underwater, machine ended up belly deep in the water on high skids - he pulled pitch and flew to the shore & landed. t/r cut the tailboom wide open. everything back from the rear cargo was trashed & had to be replaced , but everything held together! The moral is don't give up.