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Out of context I read AC as "alternating current" with "grounded" taking on a totally different meaning.

• dylan604 3y ago
  Hopefully, we never need an aircraft to be fully grounded with a tethered cable. That'd be ridiculous. As a kid, I had a plane that was tethered and would only fly in circles. Oh, where the mind wanders on a Friday
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  • WastingMyTime89 3y ago
    > Hopefully, we never need an aircraft to be fully grounded with a tethered cable. That’s one way of landing an helicopter on a boat in a rough sea. It works surprisingly well.
    • dylan604 3y ago
      Speaking of grounding a helicopter, it reminded me of the Hunt For Red October scene of trying to get a person from a helicopter to a submarine. It always seemed like such a complicated something as opposed to just putting someone in the water to let a diver collect them, which is precisely what wound up happening anyways
      • Arrath 3y ago
        My cousin was picked up from a submarine by a helicopter, I'll have to ask him how that was orchestrated.
        • dylan604 3y ago
          To me, it's still a helicopter that can hover. If your cousin had been picked up from a submarine with a sky hook, then that's over the top.
  • chipsa 3y ago
    When planes are on the ground, they usually are fully grounded with a tethered cable for ESD reasons.
  • Arrath 3y ago
    Its standard to ground out a helicopter carrying a sling load before the load is touched/handled (it may even have a longer grounding cable that drags across the ground as it descends) because it can gather some pretty dangerous levels of charge.
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