I find this scenario very difficult to imagine. First you have to have the remarkable luck to have the ceiling bumper hit a crack in the ceiling. Then, in spite of the ceiling bumper being stuck in the crack, you say the copter is moving up and down. How is that possible for it to be stuck so that the top rotor won't turn but still be able to move up and down?
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From: abcd4321
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:47 PM
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: SO Helicopter
Ok so we were testing our heli today and we got the ceiling bumper at the top of the prop stuck into a crack in the ceiling. the prop stopped spinning and it was only sustained by the lower prop. I am fairly certain of this because the whole copter moved up and down in the crack and after about 6 minuets it left the crack and flew down in the normal manner, as it would have had it not gotten stuck, and landed with a normal amount of winds left. This Leads me to believe that it is possible stop the rotation of the top rotor and still have a legal flight which lasts much longer than a normal flight. However one must find a way of stopping the rotation which does not support any of the mass of the copter.
Received on Wed Mar 30 2011 - 13:53:48 CEST
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