Return-Path: Received: from [199.185.220.224] (HELO priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP id 801355 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:52:37 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=199.185.220.224; envelope-from=haywire@telus.net Received: from Endurance ([207.81.25.155]) by priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with SMTP id <20050318015151.NZSM2646.priv-edtnes40.telusplanet.net@Endurance> for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:51:51 -0700 From: "Todd Bartrim" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] multiple belts? Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:51:45 -0800 Message-ID: <001a01c52b5d$0ab7ae90$0201a8c0@Endurance> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001B_01C52B19.FC946E90" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C52B19.FC946E90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't think you're the first to have thought this. I was envisioning one summer when I worked at a friends farm chopping silage, baling hay, etc. And how many times one of those big long belts would break and knock the others off the pulley. That was a real pain in the a**. What would this be? Seriously though, I'm sure they have considered this and decided the reliability risk was sufficient. Todd -so after all the "broken belt taking out the others" alternator/water pump conversations, a multiple belts catastrophe doesn't appear to be a concern with this helicopter? hmmm.... ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C52B19.FC946E90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I=20 don't think you're the first to have thought this. I was envisioning one = summer=20 when I worked at a friends farm chopping silage, baling hay, etc. And = how many=20 times one of those big long belts would break and knock the others off = the=20 pulley. That was a real pain in the a**. What would this = be?
    Seriously though, I'm sure they have considered = this and=20 decided the reliability risk was sufficient.
 
Todd
-so after all the "broken = belt taking=20 out the others" alternator/water pump conversations, a multiple belts=20 catastrophe doesn't appear to be a concern with this helicopter?=20 hmmm....
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