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Took this one this morning.

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Air Evac helicopter 315AE stopping in at Atlantic PWA for some gas. I love working with these guys. Beautiful aircraft on a beautiful day.
 

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TwoTwoLeft said:
Seems like the pointy end should have been going the other way.... But then again, it's Alaska. The laws of ayrodinamiks need not apply.

Alaska's new motto should be... Alaska: The state where s**t really does fly. And we're proud of it!
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Nope. If you remember back to primary, groundschool days, drag would be a result coming off trailing edge of the airfoil, not ahead of it.
Having a tapered object will reduce the parasite/form drag. If the boat was facing the other way, it would buffet the tail something fierce, rock the heck out of the strut/floats and possibly rip the boat off the aircraft.

Boats on the strut will actually create lift. However it's useless in relation to the aircraft its attached too.
 
Nark said:
Nope. If you remember back to primary, groundschool days, drag would be a result coming off trailing edge of the airfoil, not ahead of it.
Having a tapered object will reduce the parasite/form drag. If the boat was facing the other way, it would buffet the tail something fierce, rock the heck out of the strut/floats and possibly rip the boat off the aircraft.

Boats on the strut will actually create lift. However it's useless in relation to the aircraft its attached too.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I was thinking more along the lines of the parasite drag for takeoff. It would be interesting to see a model in a wind tunnel. That's still a lot of flat square footage heading into the wind.
 
spoolinup22 said:
Happened today....At least no injuries.View attachment 19651
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I'm more interested in what lead up to these events when the prop bends forward. Did they try a go around, realize the gear wasn't down, etc. Glad no one was hurt, I saw this happen last year, student did a very poor preflight and lead to a botch landing because of malfunctioning controls
 
Ajax BU said:
I'm more interested in what lead up to these events when the prop bends forward. Did they try a go around, realize the gear wasn't down, etc. Glad no one was hurt, I saw this happen last year, student did a very poor preflight and lead to a botch landing because of malfunctioning controls
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They circled for at least 30 minutes trying to troubleshoot. The plane is over 30 years old and it's used as a daily trainer. I would hate to guess how many cycles it has gone through. The pilots killed the engine on short final so my guess is that it was just the location of the prop when it hit the ground.
 
spoolinup22 said:
They circled for at least 30 minutes trying to troubleshoot. The plane is over 30 years old and it's used as a daily trainer. I would hate to guess how many cycles it has gone through. The pilots killed the engine on short final so my guess is that it was just the location of the prop when it hit the ground.
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I was referring to when the prop bends forward during a strike it means that significant power was present at the time of touch
 
Stuck waiting out a flow time to PHL yesterday, I grabbed a few pics at the approach end of 5 in Norfolk.

First one is a MegaWacker landing (time was around 9:45 in the morning on the 20th in case this is anybody here).

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I got kind of carried away playing with some filters in Photoshop
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Next out was a Lear
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And then a AWAC 200 (it was a repo flight... 9XXX in case anybody just got their picture taken).
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And then our umm... Jumpseater snagged a nice picture of the Bridge/Tunnel on the way out of town. It was pretty windy out and I had to crank the contrast to get the waves to show up in the picture.
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