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<div><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">I've been told (unconfirmed) the kid was a very active heli pilot, who had been flying for several years and was highly experienced. Chances are better than 50:50 he was flying carbon blades for max performance. A low mass blade that is stiff like a knife can still do lethal damage.....</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Recently we had a couple pilots bring their 700 size helis to my field. I was surprised to hear they were pushing 7500 watts through these things. That's 10 hp same as DA120 puts out</FONT></div>
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<div>The park is well known in the NE for its heli flying and is a fairly large area. With all that room, the amazing thing to me is that when something went wrong, the heli made a bee-line for him.....Just terrible, bad luck!</div>
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From: Budd Engineering <jerry@buddengineering.com><br>
To: mike mueller <mups1953@yahoo.com>; General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
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<div><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">523.6 feet per second (357 mph) at the rotor blade tip. Pretty high, wouldn't want to come into contact with that, not much different than a prop on a full scale general aviation plane, just lower in mass and rotating inertia. Obviously just as lethal.</SPAN></div>
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On Sep 7, 2013, at 10:42 AM, mike mueller <<A href="mailto:mups1953@yahoo.com">mups1953@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<br>
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<div><SPAN>Sad but inevitable. I don't know what can be done and I'm not trying to slam Heli pilots. They just scare the heck out of me when I see the close in low level stunts being pulled.</SPAN></div>
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<div>The cause was flying too damn close. <br>
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19 year old AMA member flying a TREX 700 electric at a NYC recognized flying site / AMA club field.<br>
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Really sad situation.<br>
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