Seems to me, Chuck, that WSPS is effective only when the helicopter hits
wires head-on in level flight, with rotor blades clear of the wires. From
your description of your son's experience, the helicopter was climbing, and
presumably the wires would have bypassed the WSPS (perhaps hitting the rotor
blades from above, perhaps hitting the tail boom). I was reading the
following last night, in a completely unrelated context: "How error and
unlucky chance [...] conspire to seek out the smallest chink in the armour
of the most elaborate and carefully planned assembly of safety devices ..."
Piers
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From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 July 2011 03:00
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Visitor
According to that link, Hueys, Apaches and Blackhawks all have WSPS systems.
He's flown all of them but has never mentioned WSPS to me.
But his accident was while flying a Bell Ranger. If it was so equipped it
didn't work.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/26/2011 8:28 PM, Moose wrote:
> Scroll down to WSPS Systems
> section.<http://www.helicopterpage.com/html/unique.html>
>
> If you cut me, do I not bleed Moose
>
>> I've never heard of a helicopter cable cutter before. I'll have to
>> ask my son about that. He, of all people, could be especially
>> appreciative of such features.
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