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Helicopters are fun, and not all that easy to make in SFS. Post your heli, bi and quad -copters here!
Here's mine:
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This one is no-clip, but yours don't have to. Can't wait to see your creations!
 
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make helicopters go to space :p
 
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Airwolf had a jet engine turbo mode of some sort that may as well have been an airbreathing rocket.
 
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Mooncrasher said:
Airwolf had a jet engine turbo mode of some sort that may as well have been an airbreathing rocket.
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Most helicopters have jet turbo engines. Airwolfs engines were probably a hybrid afterburning turbo jet / turboshaft so they could run the rotors and provide direct thrust as well when it wanted to go supersonic.


Blazer said:
Don’t tell me there is an actual helicopter with, uh... SRBs...
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JATO assisted take off.

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Blazer said:
I’ve seen helicopters with Jet engines
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Nearly all (and certainly the vast majority of military helicopters) are fitted with jet engines.


Blazer said:
SRBs are the unsafest vehicle ever conceived. Helicopters are in the top 10. I don’t think combining them is a good idea
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Depends. You're both thinking Space Shuttle SRBs, 500t monsters with millions of lbs of thrust. A JATO/RATO bottle produces a few hundred lbs of thrust and all it's doing is assisting the helicopter by reducing the weight that the rotors are having to lift alone. I don't get why that's such a mindblowing concept.

Dunno about helicopters being that unsafe. I've seen studies that show helicopters to be safer than your own car.

And SRBs aren't that unsafe. They light, they go and they're very consistent with it. SRBs are only unsafe in that you can't control it, not because they do something unexpected that often.

Mixing them is only stupid if you don't know what you're doing.
 
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Marmilo said:
Helicopters are fun, and not all that easy to make in SFS. Post your heli, bi and quad -copters here!
Here's mine:
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This one is no-clip, but yours don't have to. Can't wait to see your creations!
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Here is mine... It's a hurried (under 30min) made and bit ugly, but it works out....

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Need more changes...
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It's flyin!
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Weee
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Testin landin ops...
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Darn.... But it's still flyable right? Right?
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I'm so dumb that I've pressed the separator and it hits the tail engines...

Now I'm screwed....
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Oh darn.....
Anyways... Back to drawin board!
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Improve-ish...
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Yeeet!!
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It lands!
 

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Mars Pathfinder said:
Here is mine... It's a hurried (under 30min) made and bit ugly, but it works out....

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Need more changes...
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It's flyin!
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Weee
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Testin landin ops...
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Darn.... But it's still flyable right? Right?
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I'm so dumb that I've pressed the separator and it hits the tail engines...

Now I'm screwed....
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Oh darn.....
Anyways... Back to drawin board!
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Improve-ish...
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Yeeet!!
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It lands!
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Very similar to mine
 
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Lengthen versions!
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Seems nice to yeet this boi

Uh-oh.... The cockpit is gone :p
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Told ya :p

Almost a black version....
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Uhh some help on trapped wheel?
:p :p
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Little overshoot....

My chute test got weird....
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Those were drop from Helios then the bug starts....
 
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Mars Pathfinder said:
Lengthen versions!
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Seems nice to yeet this boi

Uh-oh.... The cockpit is gone :p
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Told ya :p

Almost a black version....
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Uhh some help on trapped wheel?
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Little overshoot....

My chute test got weird....
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View attachment 54182 Those were drop from Helios then the bug starts....
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