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Have you opened the link? > Helicopters are banned from flying to the area because of hot gas that can damage their rotors.
by vient 5y ago
Have you opened the link?
> Helicopters are banned from flying to the area because of hot gas that can damage their rotors.
- waynesonfire 5y ago"What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?"
- consumer451 5y agoWhich is not quite accurate. AFAIK, the problem is that the tiny particles quickly destroy the turbine engines, not the rotor itself.
- tweedledee 5y agoI’m sure the tiny particles would damage the rotors as well. Even rain is bad enough.
- gridspy 5y agoProbably the reporter assumes most people consider the whole "spinny thing that keeps helicopter in air" package to be one thing. Turbine, rotor and all.
- zardo 5y agoOr the reporter and editor both don't know much about helicopters, or don't consider the details of why they can't fly to be worth spending their time on.
- fencepost 5y agoWhich makes me wonder about the feasibility of a drone with flight powered by hydrogen peroxide rather than electric motors...... Little single-person helicopters powered with 85% H2O2 and a silver catalyst cropped up as a thing back in 2010, but the company in question appears to be gone now.