Posted on 09/01/2023 9:52:44 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
"Authorities have identified the pilot killed in a helicopter crash Thursday afternoon in Middlesex County.
Josef-Ram Yitzhak, 44, of Israel, was flying a single-engine Robinson R22 helicopter when it crashed around 3:30 p.m. in a canal near the border of South Brunswick and Princeton, close to Princeton Airport, according to investigators.
A firefighter and police officers who first responded to the scene lifted the aircraft and removed the pilot, pulling him to a nearby shoreline, South Brunswick Deputy Police Chief Jim Ryan reported Thursday."
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
This small aircraft.......
Probably spying...
I mean small planes also.
Small planes aren’t dangerous, crappy pilots are. R22 is an underpowered machine, was likely a high density altitude day and this guy didn’t have the skill or the knowledge to pass on flying that day when the power required/power available ratio was low.
These small aircraft are dangerous.
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This small aircraft.......
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All the other R22s are NOT dangerous?
…. says the logic Nazi to the grammar Nazi.
Run em in rawhide!!!!
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/tRrgpDhCkYM
R22 in the foreground, doing the really low stuff.
So what, too many people are getting killed.
Why did you make this asinine remark? Because the deceased was a JEW? Yet another case of "you can't fix STUPID"!
A commercial helicopter pilot I know refers to that aircraft and 'flying lawn furniture'.
Check the photo of the wreckage in the OP’s linked article.
See anything missing? How about the entire tail rotor gearbox?
Losing the paddles from the tail rotor wouldn’t be unusual in a crash, but the gearbox is connected to the fuselage by the tail boom and to the transmission by a drive shaft. The gearbox usually stays attached unless there’s some fashion of a focused blow, ... like from a drooping main rotor blade.
Tailboom separations were too common in the R-22s early days, but that supposedly had been AWD’d into history. Or was it?
There also was an incident in Rowlett, Texas just last year when an R-44 (and you’d think Robinson would have learned how to avoid this from the R-22’s teething pains) was captured on video tumbling about all three axes as it fell from the sky.
Look carefully and you can see the tail rotor gearbox, which has been severed from the tail boom by a rotor strike, fluttering down somewhat slower than the rest of the a/c. And the R-44 supposedly wasn’t going to be susceptible to tail boom separation, but the video (and post-crash forensic examination of the wreckage) proves it happened to this one.
As you watch this video, there are two people onboard who know they’re going to die in just seconds, and there’s nothing they can do about it. It’s very likely that at some point in that flight, Mr. Yitzhak came to the same realization.
Which doesn’t prove it wasn’t pilot-induced. There are things you can do to make the tail boom strike more likely. But I’d bet a dollar to a donut it was death by Robinson.
Where did you find his religion? I just saw his nationality. And there are Israelis that are Arab Muslims (although his name doesn't strike me as Arabic) and in what might be a shock to you, even Israeli Christians.
“You can fly a helicopter in America without being a citizen?”
Thousands of foreign nationals train to be pilots in the United States every year. Flight training costs and facilities are much better here than in most countries. There are some flight schools that do nothing but train foreign nationals.
Do you think all those international airline flights coming to the US only have Americans as pilots?
America is flooded with Europeans pilots because it takes less flying time here to get an Airline Transport Pilot ticket than it does in Europe. Which means you can start flying "the big iron" (FAR Part 121) sooner in the US than in Europe.
Maybe it's because he was an ISRAELI, and ISRAELIS spy on America. Sometimes Jews who aren't even Israelis spy on America on behalf of Israel (= Jonathan Pollard*).
America spies on Israel, too. Everybody spies on everybody, provided they have the ability. It's the way of the world.
As Boss Ray-Gun said, "Trust, ... but verify." And how do you verify if you don't check for yourself (= spying)?
A small aircraft is more likely to be a terrorist.
So scary.
Yikes! My brother is a heli crop duster.
“Small planes aren’t dangerous, crappy pilots are. “
A nearby television station helicopter crashed a few years ago. I was being flown regularly with a gearbox temperature warning light on. Sure enough ... gearbox failure.
A pilot told me that pilots too-often think they can get to their destination when their gages tell them not enough fuel.
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