Fox 22
Heliman
Location: Toronto Ontario Canada
| We had an incident no too long ago at our club where a member was testing out his .30 size heli when the throttle stuck. He decided to try and reach under the rotor and attempt to disconnect the fuel line. The heli pitched toward him, and caught him on the arm.
At the time, I was flying, and i heard a loud TWACK, and suddenly, chunks of rotor were scattered all over the field. Oddly enough, the stricken flyer never even made a sound, he just calmly walked over to us, and politely stated "I think my arm is broken, could you drive me to the hospital?"
later that day, we learned he had frctured is arm in 3 places, recieved 38 stitches, reconstructive neurosurgery, and severed nearly all the ligaments in his wrist. The doctors had to transplant nerves and veins from his leg, to his arm. Today, he admits it was a very stupid thing to have done. He recovered with only minor sideeffects.
Now consider this- when he got nailed, he was wearing a layered clothing and a leather Harley Davidson Biker jacket, and he nearly lost his arm. The amount of focused energy contained in a helicopter blade is tremendous, whenever I look at my concept 30, I cringe. |
