Helicopters Outfitted With Airbags
We are just losing way too many troops to helicopter accidents, which have nothing to do with actual combat and we all know we must protect the top brass and our nations leadership too. The company that makes these is RAFAEL and the name of their product is REAPS Rotorcraft External Airbag Protection Systems. Such a system should be installed in all Presidential Helicopters as well like Marine One. This keeps the aircraft gliding and as long as the pilot glides at the proper ratio, the helicopter hovers to the ground and just before getting their it changes the pitch of the rotor blades enabling the helicopter to take a bigger bite out of the air and thus flair for a soft landing. Normally if the engine quits in a helicopter it can auto-rotate and the rotor blades spin around like a pin wheel or like the Da Vinci model helicopter.
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