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TonyM
 Post subject: Scott Trade Helicopter
PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:57 pm 
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Scott Trade has been broadcasting a series of television commercials featuring the founder of Scott Trade piloting a helicopter.

Pay close attention next time you see one. At the conclusion of the commercial the helicopter is seen flying and then it enters a bank or turn and flies away. Look at the chopper's tail rotor--it is not turning. The chopper is flying and turning but the tail rotor is totally stationary. Wow.

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You're seeing the airflow guide vanes for the Fenestron unit.

http://www.bostonhelicopter.com/forsale ... ancock.jpg
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http://www.bostonhelicopter.com/forsale ... ainbow.JPG
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Thanks CAP Flyer.

Since I am a fixed wing guy, you'll have to pardon my ignorance. So those vanes are stationary while the other part of the rotor is whirring away in there--too fast for the eye to see? Is that what I am seeing/not seeing?

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Yes.
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That plus the video frame rate may have a visual effect....

like this... :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyisg9-Mwjw

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