CPS for mini

Chris Conlon synchris at ricochet.net
Tue Feb 9 21:11:32 GMT 1999


At 10:36 AM 2/9/99 -0500, Shannen Durphey wrote:

>I've had a flexplate come apart at about 4K rpm.
>...[mayhem snipped]...   It takes more than pretty stainless to
>prevent that kind of destruction.

This is probably just myth but I had always heard that the pilot in
a Huey was basically sitting inside a titanium bathtub. 'Course I'm
not sure how you'd get it down to the size and shape you'd need. Ah
well.  What do more modern choppers have? Surely there's some kind
of armor there, and just maybe some of it comes surplus??? :)

OTOH the kevlar idea sounds so easy. Will that really work? How
much difference is there between the kevlar cloth you can easily get
(alongside glass cloth and the like, for making composite body
panels) and the ballistic stuff?

   Chris C.




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