Tandem Rotor Helicopter I'm curious about a typical military cargo helicopter?
As I was growing up we called these helicopters, choppers. But before I could ask this question on here, I figured I'd grab a bit of details so yall would know what I'm talking about. Instead of digging for the answers myself, maybe yall can enjoy answering it for me. Is a typical military cargo helicopter, I guess one like the Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight, or moreover, one with tandem rotors, are they as big as say a school bus, length-wise?
I'm a curious individual and I happen to have one fly over my head today as I was coming home from school. My dad was in the Army, but he's 300+ miles away and figured I wouldn't pick up the phone to ask him a question like this! lol.
Thanks!
Thanks to the few that have already answered... I guess all I really want to know, is how big it is compared to something an average person sees nearly daily. Ex. School bus...?
The USMC uses the Ch 46 Sea Knight and the Army uses the Ch47 Chinook. They look the same to the average person, but I believe the Chinook is a bit larger.
They are huge, and very loud when inside of them. Troops can jump out of them or rappel off of them. You can also push cargo out the back , and you can also carry equipment with those helos.
They can carry about 12-15 fully loaded Marines.
In the USMC those helos are the backbone of the infantry. They refer to then as frogs or phrogs because they resemble one with their shape.
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About turning in helicopters?
Sorry for any errors.
If helicopters naturally turn counter clockwise because of centrifugal, and depressing the right foot pedal is how this is usually counteracted (not counting tandem rotor helicopters, which I believe don't have that kind of instability), does that mean that left turning is more a function of lifting on the right pedal than depressing the left pedal?
centrifugal force
Please be more specific.
Not all helicopter rotors turn counter-clockwise. French and Russian machines tend to turn clockwise. A function of how the transmission is built, rather than anything aerodynamic.
The pedals are rigged so that regardless of direction of rotor spin, if you push the left pedal, the nose of the aircraft will turn left. The pedals are connected, so technically, if you lift the left pedal, it will cause the right to go down, or forward, or however you want to put it. I've considered using a bike stirrup on one pedal so that my dad (an amputee) could fly with me, but haven't yet.
The primary method of turning while in hover is with the tail rotor via the pedals. While in flight, the cyclic is used in order to tilt the main rotor. If you were to push a pedal while in forward flight, all you would acheive is a slip or a skid.
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