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How it's made: Helicopters

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From the show "How it's Made" on Discovery Channel

This Episode: Helicopters

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  • they dont teach how roflcopters work...

  • i can do this, im going to home depot

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  • I watched this in case the world ends and I see a downed helicopter. I can know what all is good to use for survival needs and how to use them. I'm planning for the future. What are you doing?

  • i shall remember this when i need to take my lawnmower apart to fly my family to safety in 2012

  • how much is this? i want one :)

  • How it's made: Synthetic Gold.

  • 4:05

    "I just built this helicopter. Get in it and see if it crashes..."

  • What the two of you are forgetting is that driving dials and screens electronically is lighter than having direct reading gauges in the cockpit. Same with electronically controlled Fuel Computers on modern Gas Turbine engines. Lots more wire, but still lighter than using mechanical linkages back to the engines. Redundancy also has to built in, which adds more wire and weight. People don't like it when things fail in aviaition, specially as you can't pull over and fix it easily!

  • @DanFrederiksen You have a point there. It would be easier to make a custom computer module to control those "ocean of dials" *lol* in the cockpit. That would eliminate some of the wire :)

  • @hydrolisk1792 I wouldn't suggest wireless. just not 2.5km cable in a helicopter. I'm not disputing that's how they do it. I'm saying they are doing it wrong. that ocean of dials in the cockpit is also a symptom

  • @DanFrederiksen We can argue with each other all day if we wanted, just know that this is how they build these machines, and that is the same way that I build an arcade game. Wires for power for the ROM boards and CRT, signal from theRom boards to go to the CRT, wires for the controlls and so on. It is retarded to have something Wireless in the same machine. That is like having a desktop computer with a wireless card and the wireless router right next to it, Just use the damn eathernet cable!

  • @hydrolisk1792 I don't think so

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