Clark wrote:

"Trentus" wrote in
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It would appear that the majority in aus.aviation seem to think this
shot http://www.thedamnedestthing.com/page15.html was moments from
impact, but then they fly the wrong type of aircraft in that newsgroup,
so what would they know.

If not how is it still in the air at that angle? My "hunch" is that it
could be feasible to fly at that angle while towing a load, but it's
certainly just a hunch, my knowledge of physics is high school level,
and helicopter flight knowledge even less.


No, it's not about to crash. Check out http://www.colheli.com/colheli.html
and look at the The Hover Barge Photo under the Nesw & Events menu.


According to the article they only had a 25° nose down attitude. It
looks alot worse than that in the picture. Since most helicopters of
this size typically lift twice there own weight (when empty). I would
estimate that the maximum theoretical nose down angle whould be 60°.
This gives you a thrust vector component of twice youre vertical
component. However the transmission lube systems would not like this at all.

John Roncallo