Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Got lucky at the drive thru Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:10:41 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <18d5d42e40815fdeff209db65e2f51eb@www.novabbs.org> References: <2e8cf422bd21c446a6d676dad72b7c77@www.novabbs.org> <67fa7d76$8$16$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <67fae4e8$0$2790$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <4hCKP.2146802$_N6e.382419@fx17.iad> <67fbcdd1$1$15$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <5a1fd826270a6022021e9bf95dc16f23@www.novabbs.org> <8xSKP.1673574$FVcd.1464092@fx10.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="213525"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="fvfMHpfyYaD/vlBz5lqYkjt6mNUTPbft/wBbWy6Ff1w"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: 3a41f635759bc15db100ab3d5cacd588ab964edd X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$k5eLVuYkRhveDprVKuvYYeUdL5eR2QR5fTMWFZoVNy6x7cqSTVhdi Bytes: 3589 Lines: 37 On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:30:43 +0000, Dave Smith wrote: > On 2025-04-13 12:36 p.m., dsi1 wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:04:07 +0000, Dave Smith wrote: > >>> One of my childhood friends went to the US in the 60s to join the army >>> and became a helicopter pilot. Apparently he went to Vietnam. He may >>> have been inspired by another neighbour who started up a helicopter >>> business in the late 50s when helicopters were pretty much restricted to >>> the military. We lived in a small subdivison that was surrounded by >>> farmland. On weekends they guy would land in thee field closest to his >>> house and take people up for rides. IIRC it was $5 a head which was >>> about twice as much as I made in a week from my paper route. He went on >>> to open up the first helicopter tour company in Niagara Falls. >> >> A helicopter is a vehicle with thousand of parts trying to rip itself >> apart. I think a drone type of configuration would be much safer. I >> guess we'll find out if this is true. > > > It doesn't take much to have something go terribly wrong in those > things. They require a lot of maintenance. I just checked out the cost > per hour at a helicopter training school and it runs from $620- 950 per > hour, about 5-6 times the cost of flying a single engine plane. > >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfxXZdWr3g > > What do you suppose the chances are that if one of those many motors > craps out mid flight the others will automatically compensate? I think the vehicle will remain stable if motors go out. The motors are computer controlled. You can tell it's not human controlled, because its too stable in flight. It's probably the most stable heavier than air aircraft in aviation history. My guess is that all aircraft of this type will have a safety parachute system installed. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_tnpuxrXb-4