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gyroplanes
09-20-2010, 09:43 AM
Broken bones and 30% burns. Mosquitoes have integral fiberglass tanks behind the firewall (IIRC)



http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2010/09/19/experimental-helicopter-crashes-off-cape?blog=80

News release video: YouTube - HALIFAX, MA- Helicopter Crash (09-19-10) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoAH4XLw0nY)
barnstorm2
09-20-2010, 10:02 AM
I wish him a speedy recovery.

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choppergabor
09-20-2010, 10:03 AM
I hopes he makes a full recovery.
StanFoster
09-20-2010, 10:23 AM
Thoughts and prayers to the pilot and his family. Stan
animal
09-20-2010, 11:47 AM
Dang, I hate to hear this, this is the second Mosquito to go down this year that I know of. I hope the pilot recovers soon.
gyroplanes
09-21-2010, 02:30 PM
Tim, It's actually the third. There was the Florida fatal, one in Indiana a couple weeks ago and this one.
I hope it just means they are getting popular.
Maybe someone in the Mosquito "loop" will post the details and findings here.
animal
09-21-2010, 02:42 PM
Oh wow I must have missed the one in indy. what were the details of that one?

I do hope it is not from parts wearing out,at any point I still hate to hear about these crashes.
dragonflyerthom
09-21-2010, 02:49 PM
I pray a speedy recovery for the pilot. Our thoughts go out to his family.
gyroplanes
09-22-2010, 09:29 AM
I do hope it is not from parts wearing out .

I believe it was a brand new aircraft.
animal
09-22-2010, 11:19 AM
I believe it was a brand new aircraft.

could have been pilot error, still hate to hear of any aircraft going down.
Al_Hammer
10-14-2010, 07:06 PM
My sincere condolences.
Just checked the latest email update tonight. Unfortunately, the pilot, Bruce Shulman, has succumbed to his injuries.
Timchick
10-14-2010, 07:31 PM
Sad news to hear.
WHY
10-14-2010, 07:40 PM
Having no real knowledge of helio's, I have often wondered how the autorotate feature of the Mosquito performs and would one need special training to use it on this size of craft ??

Tony
Oskar
10-14-2010, 09:54 PM
Having no real knowledge of helio's, I have often wondered how the autorotate feature of the Mosquito performs and would one need special training to use it on this size of craft ??


Tony,
I have only done autorotations in a Mosquito and a Robinson R22, and must say that autorotations in a Mosquito are much easier than in a R22. Autorotations to the ground are easy in a Mosquito, in a R22 they are really difficult with little room for error.

If the pilot decides to fly in the dead man's zone or over a forrest, however, it doesn't matter what helicopter he is flying. The consequences will all be the same.
PW_Plack
10-14-2010, 10:05 PM
John Snider did a bunch of very impressive autos at both Oshkosh and Mentone in his Mosquito, from pattern altitude and from 6 feet AGL, so the machine is certainly very capable. Not sure how many pilots practice them that often.
animal
10-15-2010, 05:24 AM
Hate to hear the Pilot did not make it. prayers to his friends and family.
Arnie Madsen
10-15-2010, 10:00 PM
If the pilot decides to fly in the dead man's zone or over a forest, however, it doesn't matter what helicopter he is flying. The consequences will all be the same.

I was thinking the same thing. I believe two of the fatals in the Mosquito were descents into trees. Who knows what caused them to come down. Sometimes I think dependable flying machines with good inertia rotors lull us into feeling too safe over the wrong terrain.

Hate to hear of the loss of life doing something that can be so much fun.

I would still build and fly a Mosquito if the opportunity arose.

Arnie
Heron
10-16-2010, 06:20 AM
Is it possible to drive a helo down to a big tree and try to anchor it there?
On auto?
I always thought that crashlanding a gyro on a big tree is the way to go, when over a forest.
Heron
brett s
10-16-2010, 07:53 AM
Autorotation into trees is a crapshoot, you have no idea exactly what's going to happen once the machine hits them.

A big one may stop the ship once everything stops moving, it may not & you fall 50-100' straight down - not good in anything. And in a light aircraft there's not much of anything protecting you or absorbing any of energy...
C. Beaty
10-16-2010, 08:36 AM
Years ago at the Arcadia FL airport, Jim Waite lost power and crashed into the only tree on the airport infield, a large willow tree. Jim had a passenger on board; can’t remember whether it was his wife or someone else.

Bud O’Neal said it looked like someone was making a tossed salad, with the willow foliage flying.

When asked why he chose to alight in a tree, Jim replied it looked so nice and fluffy.
gyrojake
10-16-2010, 09:02 AM
Years ago at the Arcadia FL airport, Jim Waite lost power and crashed into the only tree on the airport infield, a large willow tree. Jim had a passenger on board; can’t remember whether it was his wife or someone else.

Bud O’Neal said it looked like someone was making a tossed salad, with the willow foliage flying.

When asked why he chose to alight in a tree, Jim replied it looked so nice and fluffy.

Chuck it was Don Bushard.

JAKE
Heron
10-17-2010, 10:45 AM
So, it will be a better decision then?
All things considered . . .
Heron
Friendly
10-17-2010, 05:30 PM
My sincere condolences.
Just checked the latest email update tonight. Unfortunately, the pilot, Bruce Shulman, has succumbed to his injuries.

Sad for everyone, Thank you Al for the update.
Al_Hammer
10-17-2010, 06:25 PM
It was very moving to read the almost daily updates that I signed up to receive from the hospital site for patients' friends and family.
The injuries were severe, but Bruce managed to buck the odds and survive for much longer than expected. His friends credited his lifelong habit of eating raw meat and semi spoiled food as a possible source of his incredible resistance to infection- always a major problem with a burn victim.
Things were starting to look sort of hopeful, but I guess it doesn't take much for your luck to change in a flash in this situation.