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    FAA states "The heightvelocity diagram or H/V curve is a graph charting the safe/unsafe flight profiles relevant to a specific helicopter. As operation...
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    some helicopters Aviation portal Attack helicopter Backpack helicopter Cyclogyro Disk loading Helicopter dynamics Helicopter heightvelocity diagram Helicopter...
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    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coffin corner (aviation) Helicopter heightvelocity diagram Küssner effect Maneuvring speed Corner case §23.333 Flight...
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    successful landing depends on the helicopter's height and velocity at the commencement of autorotation (see heightvelocity diagram). At the instant of engine...
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  • However this work often occurs in the dangerous areas of the Helicopter heightvelocity diagram, and the pilot must be qualified for this "human external...
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    Loss of tail-rotor effectiveness (category Helicopter aerodynamics)
    necessary, applying full opposite rudder until rotation stops. Helicopter heightvelocity diagram Rotorcraft Flying Handbook Section 11-12, Federal Aviation...
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    medium-lift helicopter in military and civil use. First flown in 1987, it was developed by a joint venture between Westland Helicopters in the United...
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    loads' at different 'all up weights', 'low speed handling' and 'height-velocity diagram establishment'. On 1 December 2015, LCH TD-4 completed its first...
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  • test pilot schools List of airlines List of defunct airlines List of helicopter airlines List of airports List of aerobatic teams List of civil aviation...
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  • Dead man's curve, heightvelocity diagram, which is a graph that charts safe/unsafe flight profiles relevant to a specific helicopter This disambiguation...
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    distinct from the same term used for helicopters when outside the auto-rotation envelope as seen in the heightvelocity diagram. Consideration of statics shows...
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  • Invalid reflections include things like helicopter blades, where Doppler does not correspond with the velocity that the vehicle is moving through the air...
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    Slowed rotor (category Helicopter aerodynamics)
    running only one engine, given adequate height and velocity well inside the safe areas of the heightvelocity diagram. As of 2012, no compound or hybrid wing/rotor...
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    Carter PAV (category Single-engined piston helicopters)
    fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and traditional autogyros, by minimizing the dangerous areas of the stall speed diagram/heightvelocity diagram as well as moving...
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    Tide (redirect from Tide height)
    flow and proportional to velocity. The surface height's rate of change is proportional to the negative divergence of velocity multiplied by the depth....
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  • with the aid of diagrams and photographs which show features that influence the performance. An example of a diagram is the velocity triangle which in...
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    varying angles of attack, establishing their lift-to-drag ratio polar diagrams, but was lacking the notions of induced drag and Reynolds numbers. Drawbacks...
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  • hooked to a short offset, straight down from the symbol's base centre (see diagram). Mobility indicator (field R) Depicts the mobility of an object. It is...
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    was accompanied by the Ingenuity helicopter, which scouted sites for Perseverance to study before the helicopter's mission ended in 2024. The Zhurong...
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    Pioneer 10 became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System. This space exploration project was conducted...
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    located at the coordinates ri with velocities vi. Select a reference point R and compute the relative position and velocity vectors, r i = ( r i − R ) + R...
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    surrounding a mountain airport. Helicopters may be forced to operate in the shaded portion of the heightvelocity diagram in order to become airborne at...
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  • crane vessel HLO – heavy load-out (facility) HLO – helicopter landing officer Hmax – maximum wave height HNGS – flasked hostile natural gamma-ray spectrometry...
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    hypothesis; where gravitational and hydraulic forces determine the settling velocity of grains in a seaward fining sediment distribution. Long shore occurs...
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    unmanned helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, humanity's first controlled powered aircraft flight on another planet. The helicopter rose to a height of three...
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    primarily the result of converting the rifle to the intermediate-calibre high velocity 5.45×39mm cartridge. In fact, some early models are reported to have been...
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    ester composite panels that supported the propellant tanks, the large velocity adjust (LVA) thruster, attitude monitors and correction thrusters, the...
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    which is in the public domain. The little satellite that could 2021 See diagram. "DSCOVR: EPIC – Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera". NASA. Retrieved 30...
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    on the planet's surface. The upper Martian mantle is a low-velocity zone, where the velocity of seismic waves is lower than surrounding depth intervals...
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    engine was capable of 1,323 N (297 lbf) thrust, providing a change in velocity of 1,480 m/s (3,300 mph). Attitude control was achieved by 12 small compressed-nitrogen...
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