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Russian helicopter flies without turning its main rotor



This Russian Mi-24 HIND helicopter can fly without rotating its main rotor. It can achieve this by pitching the rotor's propellers against the direction of movement, thus effectively working like an airplane's wings. Also the pilot can vector downwards the turbine's engines, giving it partial lift. Quite an amazing feat of engineering! Enjoy these two videos!


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Comments for Russian helicopter flies without turning its main rotor

Total B.S.

>It can achieve this by pitching the rotor's propellers against the direction of movement, and effectively working like an airplane's wings.


Total B.S.

You can't hover.
posted by Guest at Friday, May-18-2007 17:09pm

Check your Facts

This is called a camera trick, you can hear the rotating blades. The camera is synced with the rotation of the fan blades causing it to appear as if the blades are actually not moving.
posted by Guest at Friday, May-18-2007 17:10pm

Mmm

What an absurdly silly and wholly misinformed post. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
posted by Guest at Friday, May-18-2007 19:13pm

You people are retarded

Don't you believe you own eyes? I bet you liked the video of the girl hitting herself in the head with a bottle...

Amazing pilot in the chopper.
posted by Guest at Friday, May-18-2007 23:50pm

No camera trick!

It would take perfect sync between the copter and the camera! 0.1 fps offset could end up in the blades moving. So it's hard to believe that the helicopter can keep the revs so steady while diving, doing loops, etc.
I vote against a camera trick, and more on Russian engineering!!! :think:
posted by Guest at Saturday, May-19-2007 16:58pm

Idiots

OMG some people believe anything. You believe we landed on the moon too? It is shutter speed in sync, I have dont the same effect at UK helicopter shows & as a former helicopter pilot would question your knowledge of the physics of helicopter flight. You can pitch against the direction of movement but only the leading blade; the retreating blade is stalled & would not create lift sufficient for this effect (neither would the leading due to the low speed of the aircraft). Also, the brades would rotate naturally and autogyro due the the motion of are over them.
posted by Guest at Tuesday, May-29-2007 06:30am

JS

I actually am the one who filmed this video (or at least very similar one. And I was very surprised to find it here today). Of course the rotor was turning normally, this is the sync thing with the camera. Original video is here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7076349679064042453 :wall:
posted by Guest at Tuesday, May-29-2007 17:33pm

hind

re ce qui n'estpas impossible physiquement puisqu'a une certaine vitesse le vehicule fonctionnerait en autogyre; voir a ce sujet ce que les allemands avaient invente sur leurs Uboats
posted by dfougerolles at Monday, October-06-2008 15:05pm


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