You spin me right round baby right round

[Oxman]

She's 74 years old!

 

[Skåning]

Woah that's nuts! Wish her a speedy recovery. Smart move to try and fly out of it. Is the cable wound somehow that would make it worse?

 

[NovemberEcho]

She's 74 years old!

i remember that one. Think there’s actually a thread about it.

 

[Minuteman]

i remember that one. Think there’s actually a thread about it.

I couldn't find the thread, but I did find this, lol.

 

[MikeD]

Woah that's nuts! Wish her a speedy recovery. Smart move to try and fly out of it. Is the cable wound somehow that would make it worse?

tag line broke at the weak link from the ground. As soon as that happened, the load should’ve been lowered to the ground before an uncontrollable spin started. The cable winding doesn’t really matter as the end of the cable is a fixed ball inside ball bearings at the hook base that spins freely, allowing any cable twist to be taken out of the equation. The spinning is once a load with a wide moment arm like that hits the spiraling downwash of the helo.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

“Ma’am we’re gonna try to spin the Covid out of you.”

 

[CFI A&P]

tag line broke at the weak link from the ground. As soon as that happened, the load should’ve been lowered to the ground before an uncontrollable spin started. The cable winding doesn’t really matter as the end of the cable is a fixed ball inside ball bearings at the hook base that spins freely, allowing any cable twist to be taken out of the equation. The spinning is once a load with a wide moment arm like that hits the spiraling downwash of the helo.

It’s all ball bearings these days.

 

[Minuteman]

I just thought this was a neat picture of foreign helicopter guts.

 

[JordanD]

I just thought this was a neat picture of foreign helicopter guts.
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Is that...an old rocket pod they didn’t bother to take off?

 

[Minuteman]

Is that...an old rocket pod they didn’t bother to take off?

No it's there on purpose.

Ukrainian national contingent of MONUSCO took part in operation under the code name "Scorpion"

Since the beginning of the UN Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO), helicopters of 18 Separate Helicopter Detachment have proven themselves to be the most powerful weapon of Mission force component.

During three months service of the ninth rotation, crews of Mi-24 combat helicopters [the photo is an Mi-8] completed 139 fire damage missions against local illegal armed groups. 124 of them were in November 2018. This is due to a large-scale military operation, carried out this month by the Mission forces and the DR Congo armed forces. Operation under the code name “Scorpion” was aimed to destroy the strong points of the “Allied Democratic Forces” (ADF) illegal armed group.

The need for the operation was caused by the “ADF” militants activation, who carried out armed attacks against DR Congo service personnel, Mission’s peacekeepers and representatives of non-governmental humanitarian organizations working on overcome and prevention of the 10th outbreak of Ebola virus in the north-eastern region of the country, as well as attacks against civilian population in order to demonstrate weakness of local government, its failure to ensure security of citizens and provoke increased distrust to the UN units.

 

[knot4u]

I just thought this was a neat picture of foreign helicopter guts.
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Why is the planetary gear housing painted magenta?

 

[deadstick]

Why is the planetary gear housing painted magenta?

Deep down it’s a “Red,” but softer and gentler.

 

[knot4u]

Deep down it’s a “Red,” but softer and gentler.

I'm not sure you have any idea what you're talking about, but lacking any other answers I'll consider your opinion valid.

 

[deadstick]

I'm not sure you have any idea what you're talking about, but lacking any other answers I'll consider your opinion valid.

That definitely stood out. I was thinking overhaul, or designated OH facility.

I was going to say the pod was for carrying relief sausages. Bags of rice in the cabin. Sausages in the tubes.

 

[knot4u]

That definitely stood out. I was thinking overhaul, or designated OH facility.

I was going to say the pod was for carrying relief sausages. Bags of rice in the cabin. Sausages in the tubes.

They're keeping the peace, everything's fine, move along.

 

[Roger Roger]

Why is the planetary gear housing painted magenta?

Why are ours always painted that weird greenish gray?

 

[knot4u]

Why are ours always painted that weird greenish gray?

I only have experience working on AS350s and AS355s. I don't know what you're talking about. Which ones are yours?

 

[Roger Roger]

I only have experience working on AS350s and AS355s. I don't know what you're talking about. Which ones are yours?

This is what I’m thinking. I think it’s a primer formulated for magnesium which is pretty popular for gearboxes. Maybe the Russian formulation comes out purple?

 

[deadstick]

This is what I’m thinking. I think it’s a primer formulated for magnesium which is pretty popular for gearboxes. Maybe the Russian formulation comes out purple?

Like Operation Pettycoat?

 

[knot4u]

This is what I’m thinking. I think it’s a primer formulated for magnesium which is pretty popular for gearboxes. Maybe the Russian formulation comes out purple?
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Maybe, I remember working on radial engines with magnesium accessory gearboxes, as I recall they were all painted the same color as the power section and the power section cases were steel. I don't know, it was some gray color.