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Ron

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Chopper blows deer to safety
« on: January 19, 2007, 05:09:12 AM »
http://www.newsok.com/video/87431/

Chopper uses prop wash to blow deer stranded on ice to safety! Pretty cool.

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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2007, 06:12:23 AM »
I saw that on the news!  grin  Pretty cool, but I'm surprised the deer didn't die of a heart attack!
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2007, 06:34:23 AM »
"...and by the breath of his nostrils I was saved from freezing death!  ALL PRAISE TO THE NOISY SMELLY SKY GOD!!"

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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2007, 07:29:23 AM »
Pretty cool. Illustrates just how powerful the downdraft from the rotors can be.
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2007, 10:59:23 AM »
A better catchline would have been:

"Chopper blows deer away"

*evil grin*
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2007, 11:06:28 AM »
That looks like a lot of fun.  I see a new xtreme sport here--getting blown across icy lakes at high speed by chopper wash.
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2007, 11:42:20 AM »
The question in my mind is did the deer ever get to its feet. The last I saw was the deer being so tired it was a struggle to try to stand. I took that to be from the amount of time it was out on the ice.
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2007, 12:31:52 PM »

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Pretty cool. Illustrates just how powerful the downdraft from the rotors can be.

Powerful enough to hold up a couple tons of helicopter.

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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2007, 12:37:51 PM »
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Powerful enough to hold up a couple tons of helicopter

Hmmm...I've always read the helicopters fly due to the lift the rotor generates as it spins, not the force of the downdraft. But aeronautics is not my field of study, so I may be mistaken.
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2007, 12:58:36 PM »
How's this for a mind-bender...

At sea level air weights 0.0813 lb per cubic foot.  At that weight it would take 61,500 cu ft of air (at sea level) to equal the weight of a 5000 lb helicopter.  That's the amount of air it would take to fill a box fifty feet to a side and twenty five feet tall.  That's the amount of air the chopper has to have in motion at any given moment just to support it's own weight in a hover.

Hmm...  any of you erronawtikul types know what the actual pressure is on the high- and low-pressue sides of the rotor?

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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2007, 02:18:36 PM »
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p.s. - yes, I am constantly thinking about irrelevant crap like this...
You're going to hurt your brain some day...  laugh
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2007, 04:19:47 PM »
Quote from: mustanger98 on January 19, 2007, 10:42:20 AM
The question in my mind is did the deer ever get to its feet. The last I saw was the deer being so tired it was a struggle to try to stand. I took that to be from the amount of time it was out on the ice.

The longer version shows someone approaching the deer to wrangle it, only to have the deer jump up and r-u-n-n-o-f-t.
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Re: Chopper blows deer to safety
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2007, 06:41:24 PM »
The pilot also mentioned seeing the deer run off into the woods.

Before I saw the video, I was thinking that the deer was stranded on a big chunk of ice and the helicopter blew the ice towards the shore.  That was really pretty cool.  Might even be a fun ride for a person.
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