<Rotorway Exec must disconnect the rotor system from the engine some other
way.  Perhaps a one way clutch?>

Really, Paul, is there another way?  When a helicopter pilot needs to
disengage the engine (engine failure) he doesn't have much time to "loosen
the belts", by the time you figure out that the engine has quit and you push
the collective down, your rotor rpm has already started down.

Bob Darrah

What do I know? I have never even ridden in one let alone pilot it :-)>
Somebody said you have two seconds to reduce the pitch in an R22 or you
die. Scary!

Paul Lamar
 
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