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Phy posted:and the tailrotor doesn't need to be engaged here because no real torque is transmitted to the helicopter like during powered flight. n.b.: the tail rotor is geared directly to the main rotor so as long as the main is turning, the tail is too. you're correct that there is far less torque to deal with, but you still need the tail rotor for yaw control. even in autorotation you can use the pedals, which adjust the pitch of the tail rotor, to point the nose.
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Sagebrush posted:n.b.: the tail rotor is geared directly to the main rotor so as long as the main is turning, the tail is too. you're correct that there is far less torque to deal with, but you still need the tail rotor for yaw control. even in autorotation you can use the pedals, which adjust the pitch of the tail rotor, to point the nose. Ah, my bad. Somehow I got it in my head that the "freewheel" mechanism was for the main rotor only and downstream of the drive for the tail, so that you could have engine stop/freewheeling main/dead tail.
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# ? May 4, 2021 21:47 |
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As others have mentioned, a helicopter is fully controllable with an engine out, except for the fact that you are going down whether you like it or not. The big difference for me is that a helicopter can autorotate straight down if needed, and all forward momentum can be bled before touchdown. A plane has to be doing x speed to be flying, and you have to hope that you have a landing site large enough to lose that speed before you start hitting things. There is a reaction time window to execute an autorotation, outside of which you are hosed, but training should take care of this. This is a helicopter landing with no engine power: https://youtu.be/tPP7RQX3xiM As is this one (EDM outta nowhere warning after the intro): https://youtu.be/0DqYXlfXOqA As is this one: https://youtu.be/-f2UQ6tIJEY You have options: https://youtu.be/7wFBUAZi5XU
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Don't forget helicopters have a lot more (irrevocably fatal) failure modes than fixed-wing aircraft. A gearbox failure in your Cessna basically leaves you in the same position as an engine failure, but in a helicopter it puts you in the same position as a brick 4,000 feet up, only with slightly more awareness of what's going to happen to you. Ditto blade failures - as long as it doesn't come through the cockpit when it goes you can glide safely, but autorotation isn't going to work. There's also of all the "Yeah you're loving dead" failures afflicting components planes don't even have, like tail rotors and their driveshafts, swash plates or whatever other linkages they have to the rotors, and of course individual choppers have their own extremely fun things, from the early one I can't remember the name of where fatigue failures could rip the entire engine, rotors still attached, out of the frame, to the Chinook, the only aircraft that can have a mid-air collision with itself (certain maneuvers can flex the rotors sufficiently that they touch, with fun consequences).
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My dad was a small aircraft and heli pilot, and had this quote hung up on his wall. This applies well to motorcycling He also did a lot of mechanical work on small craft, probably one of those fields were being an insufferable perfectionist was a bonus. And part of why I hate wrenching so much to this day!
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I read a little thing once written by a Luftwaffe pilot talking about the similarities between flying and motorcycling, after noticing that all pilots (or at least all fighter pilots) also ride motorcycles. Banking into turns instead of away from them was the most obvious, but there's also the direct mapping of the stick/handlebars to a control position vs the indefinite nature of the steering wheel's angle, the necessity of compensating for crosswinds to track a straight line, the way the vehicle pushes back on the controls and allows you to feel how it's flying/riding by the torque it's giving you, the immediacy of connection to the wind and weather. There's definitely a relationship there.
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Thanks for the extremely informative posts, I learned lots. Twisto's argument about helicopters having a greater variety of instantly-fatal possible malfunctions is the one that makes me prefer planes. Sagebrush posted:I read a little thing once written by a Luftwaffe pilot talking about the similarities between flying and motorcycling, after noticing that all pilots (or at least all fighter pilots) also ride motorcycles. Banking into turns instead of away from them was the most obvious, but there's also the direct mapping of the stick/handlebars to a control position vs the indefinite nature of the steering wheel's angle, the necessity of compensating for crosswinds to track a straight line, the way the vehicle pushes back on the controls and allows you to feel how it's flying/riding by the torque it's giving you, the immediacy of connection to the wind and weather. There's definitely a relationship there. Imo it's the difference between merely operating, and actually understanding. It's impossible to get beyond a certain (very low and basic) level in riding without understanding how the bike works, because that's what gives you context to judge feedback against and ultimately have some sort of gauge of whether you're doing a good job.
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Slavvy posted:Thanks for the extremely informative posts, I learned lots. Try gliding. No need to worry about an engine out when you don't have one to start with.
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# ? May 5, 2021 02:51 |
Gliding is like having someone on a motorbike tow you and your bicycle to a really tall hill so you can whee down without having to pedal up beforehand.
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Slavvy posted:Gliding is like having someone on a motorbike tow you and your bicycle to a really tall hill so you can whee down without having to pedal up beforehand. That sounds pretty rad tbh
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Slavvy posted:Gliding is like having someone on a motorbike tow you and your bicycle to a really tall hill so you can whee down without having to pedal up beforehand. What are thermals in this analogy?
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# ? May 5, 2021 03:50 |
Carth Dookie posted:What are thermals in this analogy? Huffed farts emanating from a roadside cafe.
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Slavvy posted:Huffed farts emanating from a roadside cafe.
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Talking of pilots as bikers, TE Lawrence was of course both, and was doing the "racing a fighter" thing 50 years before Tom Cruise got rid of his first body Thetan:quote:The Road
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# ? May 5, 2021 07:31 |
Beautiful. Incredible that he had Opinions about bike handing, and also a good window into how a steep enough shitbike:horsepower gradient means you don't need corners to have fun. That must've been a loving slow plane though.
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Slavvy posted:Beautiful. Incredible that he had Opinions about bike handing, and also a good window into how a steep enough shitbike:horsepower gradient means you don't need corners to have fun. It's a WWI-era biplane, top speed 123 when new but this was written ten years after the war so it was likely knackered.
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The book was written in 1929. This guy was doing those speeds in the 1920s. Impressive. Look at those loving brakes. They are the size of a cheap moped's. Planes can appear very slow or even stationary, seen from the ground, if they have a high enough headwind. It's air speed that keeps them in the air. With a 30mph headwind and a permissible (and attainable) air speed of 120mph, the ground speed of the plane would have been 90mph and it would have been a close race indeed. Also, i love the writing. Taking an autobahn trip in Germany feels very similar. The wind roar, the arm that practically gets ripped off if you dare to remove it from the handle bars, the undulations in the road... LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 09:32 on May 5, 2021 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Talking of pilots as bikers, TE Lawrence was of course both, and was doing the "racing a fighter" thing 50 years before Tom Cruise got rid of his first body Thetan: Why did he buy sausages in Nottingham when he was just in Lincolnshire buying bacon.
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Because shopping trips inexplicably take much longer on motorcycles, than they do by car.
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LimaBiker posted:
Aahh that makes sense, should've remembered it's the speed of the wing that counts. The superior was a loving weapon for the time yeah, pretty much just a pizza sliced aero engine, makes a contemporary Harley look like a pygmy.
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quote:Like arrows the tiny flies pricked my cheeks: and sometimes a heavier body, some house-fly or beetle, would crash into face or lips like a spent bullet. This happened to me exactly once, my first year riding, and never since. (e/ I mean I was wearing a helmet obviously so not quite the same, but still) I know it's a terrible sign for the environment but also I'm kinda glad that I don't have to pick dead bugs out of my bike/jacket/face anymore. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 11:21 on May 5, 2021 |
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That essay is what every bike review tries and fails to replicate.
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ought ten posted:That essay is what every bike review tries and fails to replicate. That's when they're not trying to be HST, a vice they share with every single "journalist" who learned to read after 1972. Having said that the end of Hell's Angels *definitely* has a TE Lawrence vibe to it, as does Song Of The Sausage Creature: quote:Song of the Sausage Creature It's worth noting the 900SS has about the same power as a mid-range commuter bike nowadays, albeit with considerably ruder road manners.
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HST posted:Do you have the balls to ride this BOTTOMLESS PIT OF TORQUE? Should be the tell me what to buy thread title.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There's also of all the "Yeah you're loving dead" failures afflicting components planes don't even have, like tail rotors and their driveshafts, swash plates or whatever other linkages they have to the rotors, and of course individual choppers have their own extremely fun things, from the early one I can't remember the name of where fatigue failures could rip the entire engine, rotors still attached, out of the frame, to the Chinook, the only aircraft that can have a mid-air collision with itself (certain maneuvers can flex the rotors sufficiently that they touch, with fun consequences).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Having said that the end of Hell's Angels *definitely* has a TE Lawrence vibe to it, as does Song Of The Sausage Creature: Some very strong opinions here. Was HST the original Slavvposter(tm)?
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ought ten posted:Some very strong opinions here. Was HST the original Slavvposter(tm)? Maybe in length of posts
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Eyyy don't compare me to a coked up cosplayer who could barely cope with a warmed over desmodue, at least my posts help people sometimes. Also the idea that the rear brake does anything on those bikes. Also the idea of anyone in as late a time as the 80's/90's still thinking a black shadow is fast. Also the simultaneous 'this bike is way too fast aaa' and 'it's never fast enough for me raar' is like every goddamn punishing wounder uncle with a falcodore telling me how he'd totally get a bike but he'd DIE cause he likes SPEED too much and it just makes me cringe. Have some fucken humility.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Don't forget helicopters have a lot more (irrevocably fatal) failure modes than fixed-wing aircraft. A gearbox failure in your Cessna basically leaves you in the same position as an engine failure, but in a helicopter it puts you in the same position as a brick 4,000 feet up, only with slightly more awareness of what's going to happen to you. Ditto blade failures - as long as it doesn't come through the cockpit when it goes you can glide safely, but autorotation isn't going to work. Yeah, there’s no denying there are a lot of links in the chain, but those sorts of catastrophic failure modes are very rare. The most recent thing along those lines I can think of is the Super Puma main gearbox issue which resulted in the instant destruction of the MGB and loss of the main rotor a few years ago. It wasn’t that long ago that a PA-28 (I think?) just lost a wing with a student pilot and an examiner on board, IIRC - so it’s not unheard of in fixed wing land. The only other spontaneous failure of a heli specific component that I recall in the last 5-7 years (not that I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of such things) is a scissors failure on a heli being designed in NZ, which resulted in what I’m sure was a harrowing journey into a bay with no reliable cyclic control, but nobody died AFAIK. I believe the Mi-24 Hind was able to sever its own tail boom if enough aft cyclic was applied, as discovered by an East German crew engaging in some cross-border showboating with an American crew in a Cobra or similar. I guess there is mast bumping to contend with on teetering rotor head aircraft like Robinsons and many Bells which can result in the rotor departing the aircraft, but this doesn’t happen if you avoid negative G conditions. Anyway, like I said there’s certainly plenty going on and plenty of parts which could fail. But I would think engine failure is by far the most common failure mode on both fixed and rotary wing aircraft, and fir the aforementioned reasons I’d take rotary over fixed in that scenario any day, assuming a competent pilot of course!
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Slavvy posted:telling me how he'd totally get a bike but he'd DIE cause he likes SPEED too much this is a type of person i didn't know existed until i got a motorcycle. there are way more of them than i would have expected. i assume they're actually just too scared to ride a bike at all, so they have to get all blustery and talk bullshit to hide it. actually i remember someone doing the same thing to me about planes, except it was "i'm pretty sure i'd get bored cause i need a challenge, and the only hard part is landing it" Here4DaGangBang posted:It wasn’t that long ago that a PA-28 (I think?) just lost a wing with a student pilot and an examiner on board, IIRC - so it’s not unheard of in fixed wing land. That was due to main spar corrosion that should have been detected at the annual inspections, iirc. Specifically checking the spars for corrosion was not a required item, though a thorough mechanic would have; last I heard the FAA was in the process of making it a requirement for PA-28s and similar models. e: no, never mind, I found the report and they say that the cracks were based on fatigue, not corrosion, and they would have been undetectable to the maintainers without fancy electromagnetic testing equipment. It was a flight training aircraft that had a relatively hard life and the dice just came up. Welp. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:19 on May 5, 2021 |
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Slavvy posted:Eyyy don't compare me to a coked up cosplayer who could barely cope with a warmed over desmodue, at least my posts help people sometimes. Song of the sausage creature is in fact not good. I’ve been saying this for years.
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I mean, he mentions the 916 which means it's at least 87, at which point the 900ss was already quite slow by the standards of the time. The gsxr750 and 1100, gpz900r, fzr750 and 1000, Vfr750 and vf1000 were all popular, available bikes at the time and all of them would absolutely stomp an SS. Literally just a neophyte nearly crashing a middleweight twin then bragging about how fast and heroic he is.
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Slavvy posted:I mean, he mentions the 916 which means it's at least 87, at which point the 900ss was already quite slow by the standards of the time. The gsxr750 and 1100, gpz900r, fzr750 and 1000, Vfr750 and vf1000 were all popular, available bikes at the time and all of them would absolutely stomp an SS. I think it was '95. Comparatively, my Scrambler: I never knew it was such a BOTTOMLESS PIT OF TORQUE
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Slavvy posted:I mean, he mentions the 916 which means it's at least 87, at which point the 900ss was already quite slow by the standards of the time. The gsxr750 and 1100, gpz900r, fzr750 and 1000, Vfr750 and vf1000 were all popular, available bikes at the time and all of them would absolutely stomp an SS. 916 came out much later than that (first homologation specials came out in 93, it first raced in the 94 season). The particular model he tested (the 900SS/SP) only came out in 95, and although it was quite a bit hotter than the base 900SS, it was still pretty tame for the time and like I say roughly the same power and weight as a modern mid-range commuter.
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I don't know poo poo about the bike he's talking about but he sounds like a pretentious bellend anyway from the way he keeps calling himself a café racer, like that's a thing for a person to be, and be proud of Do modern street rossi motovloggers talk like this too?
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the only moto vlogger I got subscribed on youtube is that hank hill sounding guy that farts around on cfr250s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zmiCxhguJI
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Renaissance Robot posted:I don't know poo poo about the bike he's talking about but he sounds like a pretentious bellend anyway from the way he keeps calling himself a café racer, like that's a thing for a person to be, and be proud of
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Renaissance Robot posted:I don't know poo poo about the bike he's talking about but he sounds like a pretentious bellend anyway from the way he keeps calling himself a café racer, like that's a thing for a person to be, and be proud of Bear in mind the damage hipsters have done to the term "cafe racer". To an American of his vintage it still had an aura of danger - the cafe racer scene, while never as big as it was in the UK, was an important part of the US bike culture right up until the early 70s. It's the kind of distinction that falls extremely flat to modern ears, but the original MCs were formed around (legal and illegal) racing teams set up by returning US servicemen who weren't ready to settle down and feed the baby boom just yet (Hells Angels itself is a name that came from the USAAF, itself taken from a name WWI pilots gave themselves). Drag racers took off all the components that didn't make the bike faster in a straight line, kicked out the forks and stretched the bars to get the CoG as low as possible, and invented the chopper. Road racers upgraded their suspension, put on clipons and rearsets for better clearance and aerodynamics, and stretched the tanks, and invented the cafe racer. It's probably not a coincidence that HST put so much emphasis into this given his experience with the chopper-riding Hell's Angels. (You're still free to hate it of course, but it's important to know why you hate things)
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Why don't modern bikes with fuel injection like apply the break light when engine braking? Seems trivial to implement. In gear, clutch engaged, throttle below a threshold, light up the brake light. There are after market kits that do that via accelerometers but it feels like it should be standard.
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