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To: 9422WMR

I’d imagine they have more than choppers, which have the glide capacity of a sack of cement.


10 posted on 12/23/2016 6:13:27 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

And the F4 had?


26 posted on 12/23/2016 6:47:18 AM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Fixed wing glide range is great, but at the end, you still hit the ground flying above stall speed (hopefully).

With a helo you can usually zero forward airspeed AND rate of descent.

Caveat - with a heavy helo, like the CH-53, your final rate of descent is still high enough that you’ll shove the landing gear up through the sponsons, unless you can do a roll-on landing to a hard surface.


49 posted on 12/23/2016 8:04:38 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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