You are correct. I had forgotten about him climbing at the time. There
were two sets of wires, one at about 100 feet and the other at about 200
feet. He had seen the first set and was climbing to avoid it when he
ran into the second set.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/27/2011 7:01 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Seems to me, Chuck, that WSPS is effective only when the helicopter hits
> wires head-on in level flight, with rotor blades clear of the wires. From
> your description of your son's experience, the helicopter was climbing, and
> presumably the wires would have bypassed the WSPS (perhaps hitting the rotor
> blades from above, perhaps hitting the tail boom). I was reading the
> following last night, in a completely unrelated context: "How error and
> unlucky chance [...] conspire to seek out the smallest chink in the armour
> of the most elaborate and carefully planned assembly of safety devices ..."
>
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 July 2011 03:00
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Visitor
>
> According to that link, Hueys, Apaches and Blackhawks all have WSPS systems.
> He's flown all of them but has never mentioned WSPS to me.
> But his accident was while flying a Bell Ranger. If it was so equipped it
> didn't work.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> On 7/26/2011 8:28 PM, Moose wrote:
>> Scroll down to WSPS Systems
>> section.<http://www.helicopterpage.com/html/unique.html>
>>
>> If you cut me, do I not bleed Moose
>>
>>> I've never heard of a helicopter cable cutter before. I'll have to
>>> ask my son about that. He, of all people, could be especially
>>> appreciative of such features.
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