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Message no. 1
From: Sebastian Wiers <seb@***.RIPCO.COM>
Subject: Re: Banshee Bird Strikes/ et al
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 14:51:50 -0500
Could someone give me a good idea of what would happen if you shot a netgun
at a helecoptor? I imagine (if you were close enough) that the stabalizing
rotor would be the one to go for, but how much would it take to stop or at
least majorly fuck the arodynamics of a rotor?
Message no. 2
From: WILLIAM FRIERSON <will1am@*****.ASU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Banshee Bird Strikes /et al
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 03:25:37 -0700
seb@***.RIPCO.COM (Sebastian Wiers) wrote:

> Could someone give me a good idea of what would happen if you shot a netgun
>at a helecoptor? I imagine (if you were close enough) that the stabalizing
>rotor would be the one to go for, but how much would it take to stop or at
>least majorly fuck the arodynamics of a rotor?

Well, I know that the tail rotor will chop through a head, including the
helmet (my ex-father-in-law had one of his soldiers get too close). This
was back in '83, right before they got Apaches. The guy got careless and
lost his face.

So I would say that unless your net is very tough, the rotors would just cut
it to pieces. The rotors on today's helicopters are composite materials, and
they're very tough. I imagine that 205X would have more advanced rotor
materials, so they would probably make short work of a net shot into them.

Just my 2 cents.

Later

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Message no. 3
From: Charles Chase <DeckinChef@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Banshee Bird Strikes/ et al
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:27:29 -0400
The net is easily distorted and dumped in flight even over the very short
effective distance of 20-30 meters for bigger nets. I doubt you could ever
get it close enough to a rotor or stabilizer of a moving helo and with all
the wind chop it would most likely be folded and blown down and away. I've
worked for years with nets as a biologist and they are really only effective
at very low trajectories on calm days. The spin rate on a stabilizer is
enough to deflect most objects anyway.
Message no. 4
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Banshee Bird Strikes /et al
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 17:39:34 +0200
>So I would say that unless your net is very tough, the rotors would just cut
>it to pieces. The rotors on today's helicopters are composite materials, and
>they're very tough. I imagine that 205X would have more advanced rotor
>materials, so they would probably make short work of a net shot into them.

Two solutions: monowire nets or the det-nets from the CP2020 Chromebook 2.


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Message no. 5
From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@*****.IPSWICHCITY.QLD.GOV.AU>
Subject: Re: Banshee Bird Strikes/ et al
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 15:29:33 +0200
Hi Sebastian,

> Could someone give me a good idea of what would happen if you shot a netgun
> at a helecoptor? I imagine (if you were close enough) that the stabalizing
> rotor would be the one to go for, but how much would it take to stop or at
> least majorly fuck the arodynamics of a rotor?

Something like a standard net is likely to get shredded in a tail rotor,
and would not have an earthly on a main. However, something large and
flexible like a pelican can and does do nasty things....

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