Is it just me or did it look like they were just holding it up the whole time? I never even saw the rotors get up to speed.

>> ^Jinx:

What about Helicopters with coaxial rotors?


That is essentially what the Chinook is. One blade goes clockwise, the other blade...well, I'm betting you can figure it out.

What about Helicopters with coaxial rotors?

i'm not sold on the concept. "twice the power of a tower mounted turbine"? but this one has a puny little rotor, whereas the bigges turbines have a rotor alone of more than 400ft in diameter. and this little thing only floats 1000ft in the air (at least they plan to do so, only having achieved 350ft up until now). granted, there's surely more wind "up there" but then what? compare a 400ft rotor (the whole thing is 600ft in total height) to this little plastic sucker in 1000ft? the E-126 turbine i'm taling about generates 6MW. i want to see 12MW coming out of this little blimp thing :-)

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a...


...a duzion of the rotor in the night?

pilot error. not enough altitude and he didn't execute the maneuver very well - the chopper should have pivoted around at the end of the upward curve and straighten itself in the direction of flight thus giving the rotors a chance to provide lift as soon as possible before it starts loosing too much height. altitude of the terrain was also a factor, but the pilot should have calculated that in ...

that video is very cool>> ^Jinx:

>> ^surfingyt:
im kinda let down the helicopter wasnt turned on fully

I remember seeing a video on the sift where somebody does that (only looking out, not in). You get a really wierd effect because of the way the camera samples. Turned the landscape into a sort of sine wave. http://youtu.be/EnrwrwMfNSs
Assuming you could mount the camera to the blade tip so it wouldn't fly off, balance the blades and then spin them up to a multiple of the cameras refresh rate I'd wager you'd get a similar effect. You might be able to see the front and back of the Helicopter simultaneously

>> ^surfingyt:

im kinda let down the helicopter wasnt turned on fully

I remember seeing a video on the sift where somebody does that (only looking out, not in). You get a really wierd effect because of the way the camera samples. Turned the landscape into a sort of sine wave. http://youtu.be/EnrwrwMfNSs

Assuming you could mount the camera to the blade tip so it wouldn't fly off, balance the blades and then spin them up to a multiple of the cameras refresh rate I'd wager you'd get a similar effect. You might be able to see the front and back of the Helicopter simultaneously

Is that a two or a four bladed rotor I'm seeing? Looks like a two bladed one, which would make it a Cobra or a SuperCobra, since the Viper has a four-bladed rotor.

>> ^blutruth:

I'd love to know what caused that catastrophic failure.


I would guess rotor imbalance or ground resonance

In its defense, it's not finished (still filming possibly, or at least just wrapped). There are scenes in there that clearly have yet to get a full CG pass... For example, the Batwing at the end, I heard that would be getting CG rotor blades in post-production, and its windows look like they were made of plastic... There's plenty of time for CG polish...
>> ^spoco2:

The explosions on the football field were truly, truly terrible. How can such a big budget film, with such a pedigree, have a such obviously CG effect.
Horrendous.
I'm hoping the film is good, but that bit looks just flat out crap.

Sounds like a company that makes decaffeinated machine parts: Sanco Rotor

Another angle, slo-mo, but he station's idiot ID covers the rotor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZaSH_z_pY&feature=related