206 Tail Rotor Question...

[helidude]

Just to give you an idea of how tough Astars are, I have pictures of three M/R blades that came off a red, white and eastern owned (calgary based) Astar that was involved in a "discussion" with poplar trees in the early 90's. All three blades were scrapped and one of them had nothing left on it except the leading edge and the spar for 75% of the its lentgh. When we weighed the three blades, that one weighed 11 lbs less than the other two!!
The A/C flew about a 1/2 mile down a mountain with those blades before hard landing in a creek bed.
Amadeo can fill in the details if he likes.

This Astar was about 6 months brand new!!!

 

[twinstar_ca]

doesn't all this go to show that somedays, your ride will do what it can to get you down to terra firma when all hell is breaking loose!!! why else do we always get told to fly the aircraft 1st and foremost while we do everything else...

the history of aviation is filled with stories of lancs, daks, hueys, 206's and 350's that made it down before the chips do...

i think that as has been said often already, no one would expect to fly with a t/r blade you can stick anything through, but when it gets you down to the ground, maybe give it an extra pat of thanks it did...

 

[Squirrel]

another Astar story - a B1 did a quick stop over the ocean - west coast BC - due to wx, was too low & tail went underwater, machine ended up belly deep in the water on high skids - he pulled pitch and flew to the shore & landed. t/r cut the tailboom wide open. everything back from the rear cargo was trashed & had to be replaced , but everything held together! The moral is don't give up.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

Helidude,
Even a brick will fly when its barreling down a mountain side! With more than half the blades missing (if not more), its no wonder the A/C landed Hard!

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[Elvis]

Another 212 story...on my last 212 job the A/C on departing an offshore rig one of the power turbines shed its blades with 8 SOB and 2800 lbs of fuel the crew elected to fly 90 miles the A/C back to base.

After inspecting the A/C after landing there where holes in the T/R blades and still a few peices of turbine blades.



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[Albert Ross]

You want one or two sugars, cap? 😀

The link from Elvis won't work because we now don't deal with large book chains, although we have no problem with small independents.

 

[Zazu]

All wonderful events granted, but would any of you fly those aircraft after said defects occurred?! In keeping with my above synopsis I will keep the question(s) simple....1)how did it happen? ('kind of important)
2)LESSONS LEARNED!!!! (more imprtant ?!)

-'love the stories, just an "old " low timer",


ZAZU


PS . How the hell do these so called "emoticons" work?






















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[cap]

Albert Ross ------no sugar at all and if I do another reccomendation for you, then the price goes up.........that'll be "dead chickens and burnt pig" to go with that "latte"....even if you "write that off" to 'Misc. Entertainment Expenses' at tax time.