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Leicester City
Sounds like the Lecister City's owners helicopter crashed when leaving the stadium after this evenings game with him in it.
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Re: Leicester City
A quick check of the news feeds doesn't say anything about the occupants.
I'd take that as a bad sign.
I'd take that as a bad sign.
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Re: Leicester City
Confirmation in news reports this morning he was inside it as it came down, I’m not a footie fan, but that’s horrendous for family and friends of all concerned.
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Re: Leicester City
Still safer statistically than a car! Just when it does go wrong your chances are limited. It’s deffinitely the best way to work commute in my opinion.duke63 wrote:Helicopters. - wouldn't get me inside one.
*(Apart from that time the fleet was grounded due to the Norway crash of the same helicopter type and I spent an extra week at work )
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Re: Leicester City
Doesn't surprise me one bit if they're safer than cars.
End of the day you've got a professional flying the thing....as opposed to anybody-under-the-sun driving a car.
Those small private plane accidents are no different.....it's always some jobsworth that thinks he's Biggles.
End of the day you've got a professional flying the thing....as opposed to anybody-under-the-sun driving a car.
Those small private plane accidents are no different.....it's always some jobsworth that thinks he's Biggles.
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Re: Leicester City
Be interested to understand how those statistics are worked out.kiwikrasher wrote:Still safer statistically than a car! Just when it does go wrong your chances are limited. It’s deffinitely the best way to work commute in my opinion.duke63 wrote:Helicopters. - wouldn't get me inside one.
*(Apart from that time the fleet was grounded due to the Norway crash of the same helicopter type and I spent an extra week at work )
Its quite astonishing how many of the rich and famous have died in helicopter crashes.
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To be honest Duke, I was being a bit flippant. As you say it depends on the data used. Record fatalities/X number of people and it looks heaps safer. But look at operating hours vs fatalities and helicopters are wildly more unsafe.duke63 wrote:Be interested to understand how those statistics are worked out.kiwikrasher wrote:Still safer statistically than a car! Just when it does go wrong your chances are limited. It’s deffinitely the best way to work commute in my opinion.duke63 wrote:Helicopters. - wouldn't get me inside one.
*(Apart from that time the fleet was grounded due to the Norway crash of the same helicopter type and I spent an extra week at work )
Its quite astonishing how many of the rich and famous have died in helicopter crashes.
That said, and with my aircraft trade behind me as knowledge l’m more than happy to spend a 1.5 hr or 2.5 hours (do both) over open water.
But I also like going too fast on bikes with limited skills so my opinion isn’t that reliable.
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Re: Leicester City
Well, statistically they aren't going to die in a Reliant Robin!
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Re: Leicester City
I wonder what the AAIB's investigation will conclude.?
Emergency fuel shut-off accidentally employed, or perhaps a drone strike causing a freak loss of drive.?
Emergency fuel shut-off accidentally employed, or perhaps a drone strike causing a freak loss of drive.?
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Re: Leicester City
The problem with a helicopter is that if anything goes wrong with the rotors, you are sitting in a lump of metal built like a brick that will do only one thing.
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Re: Leicester City
Same is true of a car, train or plane
Anyway, let's not forget a few fine people have lost their lives in a tragic accident.
Anyway, let's not forget a few fine people have lost their lives in a tragic accident.
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Re: Leicester City
They are saying it seems the pilot may have aimed for the empty car park, if true, the guy is a hero as it could have been so much worse if he had hit the stadium again, cant imagine having that presence of mind to think that clearly as your coming down.
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Re: Leicester City
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that if a helicopter's engine suddenly gives out, the transmission disengages from the rotor to give the pilot some steerability as it's going down.
Down, down, down.
Down to the ground.
Down, down, down.
Down to the ground.
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Re: Leicester City
Saw the report this afternoon on the news. Tragic. Poor family.
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Re: Leicester City
Trouble with that D41, is that apparently they were just beginning the ascent and had only reached around 200 feet. It doesn't take long for a 4.5 tonne lump of metal to fall to earth from 200 ft.D41 wrote:I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that if a helicopter's engine suddenly gives out, the transmission disengages from the rotor to give the pilot some steerability as it's going down.
Down, down, down.
Down to the ground.
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Re: Leicester City
A handily - if inappropriately named website has a calculator for such things, should you jump off the Burq Khalifa and wish to find out your terminal velocity (assuming free fall), this is the link you’ll need:
https://www.angio.net/personal/climb/speed.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That said, I’ve assumed metres instead of feet and it calculates thus:
Either which way, as Guy Martins Grandfather said “When you dead, you dead”.
https://www.angio.net/personal/climb/speed.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That said, I’ve assumed metres instead of feet and it calculates thus:
Either which way, as Guy Martins Grandfather said “When you dead, you dead”.
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Re: Leicester City
It doesn't with regards to acceleration, but it does significantly increase the energy at impact.D41 wrote:I thought weight didn't matter in freefall??
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