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>> ^sexygaga:

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This guy should be hired by that blimp-chopper group!

>> ^Sagemind:

"...killing one of the pilots" ...leads me to believe there were more than one pilot.
I don't know why, but I was imagining one in each copter...
>> ^rychan:
Here's the Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97
From the video I got the impression that this was the first test flight, but apparently not. Also the entire contraption was controlled from the left-rear helicopter. It seems in one of the shots you can see a pilot in that helicopter being violently thrown around.



Yeah I found that phrasing odd as well. It does definitely imply multiple pilots. But if only one pilot is operating the thing, it seems idiotic to put more test pilots at risk. But that seems to be par for this course.

I wonder what the engineers behind this think. Maybe management forced them into the ridiculous situation.

I'm glad to hearing you were success!

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>> ^sexygaga:

That's cool!
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S u g a r B a b y M a t c h．ｃｏｍ
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T h e 　b e s t　c l u b　f o r s e e k i n g r i c h s i n g l e s,　a n d s e x y b e a u t i e s,　W h a t ' s t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t i
s t h a t y o u d o n ' t h a v e t o b e a m i l l i o n a i r e, b u t y o u
c a n m e e t o n e.
I believe you will success there since thousands of singles, include me, have found true love there.


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"hello planes? its blimps. you win!"

"...killing one of the pilots" ...leads me to believe there were more than one pilot.
I don't know why, but I was imagining one in each copter...
>> ^rychan:

Here's the Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97
From the video I got the impression that this was the first test flight, but apparently not. Also the entire contraption was controlled from the left-rear helicopter. It seems in one of the shots you can see a pilot in that helicopter being violently thrown around.

I'm usually not one for superstition, but maybe don't do anything with blimps at Lakehurst anymore. Just a thought.

I was expecting one of the copters to sling a blade or break off and go up into the blimp. I mean....the blimp is holding the weight of the undercarriage up so why wouldn't you put some protection there to keep the blades from slinging things into it.

And yeah it didn't look real stable, but was expecting the failure to come from the balloon being popped and deflating down into the blades of the remaining blenders below it.

>> ^sexygaga:

That's cool!
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S u g a r B a b y M a t c h．ｃｏｍ
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s t h a t y o u d o n ' t h a v e t o b e a m i l l i o n a i r e, b u t y o u
c a n m e e t o n e.
I believe you will success there since thousands of singles, include me, have found true love there.


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>> ^syncron:

Why decommissioned helicopters?


No commissioned helicopter (in it's right mind) would participate in something like this. But, apparently, someone thought they would success...

It's crappy engineering like this that effectively killed one of the most brilliant concept in aviation. Blimps are without question, -the- most efficient design for heavy airlifting. No fuel wasted on lift makes them remarkably cost-effective. But letting designers do idiotic things like use hydrogen as the lifting gas (instead of the non-flammable helium, and/or paint the body with thermite, or build some ridiculous scaffold to hold four partial helicopters has made it so nobody will ever seriously consider them again.