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Heavy Metal (of the rotary kind)

Gatordev said:
"Composite airframe?" How does that work for repair? Can you patch composite ribs and frames?
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Yes, easily. The repair is almost identical to doing it on an aluminum airplane, just takes a couple tricks-of-the-trade to do it well. Oh, and usually no rivets...
 
They showed us that video in one of our classes in HT-land. That thing looks pretty freaking cool. And the transmission weighs as much as my entire TH-57C.
 
squeeze said:
The -53E can external a CH-47 just fine... and has on multiple occasions in theater. Why wouldn't an improved variant?
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I'm making fun of promotional videos for an aircraft still deep in development. I'd like to see them meet cost or schedule or performance (let alone all 3) before the high-fiving starts.

(And when you consider that all the mechanicals and avionics are new, it is hard to think of it as just a new variant. This is another case of us trying to make the technical risk of a new aircraft seem lower by implying we are just upgrading an already mature design).
 
A lot of people weren't sold on it at first but the DT folks seemed to like it in the sim. The only side stick experience I've had is about a 2.0 in the front of a Cobra and I thought it was pretty money...
 
teabag53 said:
A lot of people weren't sold on it at first but the DT folks seemed to like it in the sim. The only side stick experience I've had is about a 2.0 in the front of a Cobra and I thought it was pretty money...
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Having actually done it I'll take your word for it. My initial reaction was like MB's. I can't imagine flying w/ sidestick. I mean if body armor and a small (inch or so) shift in your body, is enough to eff with your muscle memory to make you have to consciously adjust, I can't imagine flying with the stick a foot away from where it is normally, not to mention not rotating about a pivot in the floor, but a pivot inches below.

I'm sure getting hands on in a sim would change a lot of minds, but thinking about it, it seems like a learning curve.
 
So, if the 60S mine sweep equipment doesn't pan out, is this what the Navy's going to get to replace our 53E's that about to turn into pumpkins?
 
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