XPost: talk.bizarre, misc.misc   
   From: b@p.h   
      
   Kent Paul Dolan   wrote:   
   >Blair P. Houghton  wrote:   
   >> Kent Paul Dolan   wrote:   
   >>> Time to bring out the cluebat: "logistics".   
   >   
   >> No.  The logistics of having 6 choppers in the   
   >> same 160 acres of footprint is a lot worse than   
   >> the logistics of having 6 channels multiplexing   
   >> from one digital video feed.   
   >   
   >I invited you to think. Apparently you're not   
   >willing to do that.   
      
   Sorry.  You know better.  I think four times as fast and   
   nine times as deep as you at all times.  Either posit your   
   hypothesis of the logistical problem, or take your ritalin.   
      
   >By the way, inquiring about the physics of the   
   >crash, I'm guessing that it isn't good for the lift   
   >performance of either chopper, if one is in the   
   >column of the other's downdraft at close quarters?   
      
   Choppers work with vortices, mostly.  They can fly   
   in a box, if the box is moderately sized.   
      
   But something that alters the ambient air so that they   
   can not produce the vortex properly will unbalance or   
   eliminate their thrust.   
      
   But these guys are pros.  They wouldn't not know that.   
   So whatever happened, it was due to a lapse in attention   
   or communication that caused them to get into a position   
   they knew they should not be in.  The accident actually   
   happened long before the collision did.   
      
   The only cause announced will be "operator error". The   
   ultimate cause will probably not be announced as such   
   but will almost certainly be the policy of allowing a   
   large number of aircraft into a small space, raising the   
   probability of an error exponentially.   
      
   				--Blair   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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