Going supersonic in the vertical

[tlord82]

With a semi-rigid head, think of the fuselage as simply hanging beneath the center of the rotor. Flying around in 1g this is no problem because the rotor just pulls the fuselage around. When you get to 0g's, the attitude of the helo and rotor are no longer coupled. The fuselage will experience a right rolling tendency because of the tail rotor. A natural pilot reaction of left cyclic to counter the roll will cause the rotor to roll until the droop stops start hitting the mast. Two important pieces of metal hitting each other hard many times a second = BAD. (Rotor flies off, Rotor starts to cut fuselage into pieces, etc.)

At this point in the conversation, I stop and thank God that my plane is smarter than me and won't let me hurt her.

 

[MasterBates]

You are not a pilot.. You are merely a voting member in the aircraft control committee.

 

[magnetfreezer]

Worried about going supersonic and still having plenty of fuel to fight

Cross over into the dark side :icon_smil

On a serious note, while going supersonic is pretty impressive outside the jet, most guys seem to experience a relatively less spectacular buffeting at the transition while along for the ride.

While G's and speed certainly have their place, if you go jets, as the others have said, you will have more than enough tactics to work with 90% of the time. Being able to fly at any attitude you want doesn't help if your jet can't see the enemy before he sees you/effectively integrate the avionics and other weapons systems to give you SA when in the fight.

 

[Catmando]

Not very sexy images, but it's all about this..... the V-N "envelope".
Be/fly on certain optimum points on the edge: :icon_smil

 

[Flash]

Cross over into the dark side :icon_smil

Now if only the rest of the plane would work well, and yet it will still be retired before the BUFF.

 

[Pepe]

...BS EMAIL...

Got that same email from my mother-in-law. Pissed the wife off because I was laughing so hard.