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Because you applied so much force through the footpeg or because you
binned it, again

 

I had one of them the other week. I told him my Grandad died walking down
the street.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Switters belched forth and ejected the following:

My Uncle Burt died while mowing the garden!

Nice one.

 

Beds, now they are dangerous. It's appalling the number of people dying
in them.

 

Just chatting with him on MSN and he says it was 175 feet, but still high
enough. All the guys said that it was his skills as a pilot that saved his
life. He was towing a banner[1] at labour day weekend and it was his last
flight before flying back. The banner didn't unfold and basically turned
into a wing and the cable removed the tail rotor. His wife wanted to fly
with him on that one but they said no. Luckily for her she wasn't allowed to
go as he hit the ground on the left side.

[1] Company who's banner it was says it was safe [2] and he now admits that
it was probably the most stupid thing he has done, and wont be doing again.
[2] Now being sued for shit loads of $$, and brothers company don't fly
banners anymore.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20050906X01386&key=1 says seriously
injured, but wasn't as worse as it made out.

 

You have an access control list on your bike? That's cool!

 

really? Well, I suppose it was just a hobby for him, so a nasty shock
like this might see him pick a different one, despite his obvious
enjoyment of biking.

 

However, I fully expect the racing types will be along in a minute to tell

Nice.Thanks.

 

Hog says...

Pretty much grounded. Just been signed off for another week. Can't drive
or ride at the moment.

 

I've just been googling around rotary wing accidents. I see some newer
machines which use the turbine exhaust rather than a tail rotor, which
seems sensible. I know about the autogyro landing, having tried some
rotary flying lessons, but that was related to main power failure.

I think it was WUN who was recounting recently that some small planes
have adapted parachute arrester systems. I've wondered about that
possibility for years and..... well I never!
http://www.brsparachutes.com/default.aspx

I'd like something on commercial airliners too please.

 

Bear got sober and Kira left.

 

He doesn't remember but he shut the power off so fast and hard that he
snapped the button that shuts the fuel off on the collective. This stops the
engine turning the rotor and the forces of rotation, the chopper will level,
but you still need quiet a bit of air speed to get lift to the blades to do
an autorotation. He must have got that bit right.

 

I don't like helicopters, period.

 

I do too. And they have teeth.

Phil

 

I'm too busy drinking beer, eating sandwiches and destroying the economy.
Sorry.

 

How we dream about the old days, when trade unions represented the local
interests of the particular workers who paid them, rather than swanning
around and ganging up to tell us how we have to wipe our arses.

 

How were Tony and Gordon this week?

 

Piling the outfit into the Armco last year was a wake up call for me but
six months later I was out and about, at speed, on unsuitable machinery
in unsuitable equipment.

In many ways that is why I like the Guzzi so much as I can ride it at its
absolute limits with all the feedback and fear that comes with that but,
in all honestly, it's still going relatively slowly.

 

I really want to learn to fly one of those - maybe even build one - if
only to be able to say "Possibly" if anyone asks if it can take two.

 

Gordon will have to suck my cock, live on TV, if he wants my support.