Monday, June 23, 2008

That's one way to put it

I just encountered my favorite sentence so far in my reading. It's in Principles of Helicopter Flight; the emphasis here is mine:

"The increasing horsepower required [to turn while descending] causes a greater shortfall of power, and the angle of descent becomes steeper. Do take particular note of this because performing steep descending turns close to the surface can result in unintended contact with the terrain."

Indeed. Noted.

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