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Originally Posted by Nigel C
I presume you've made a paper helicopter before? They never fall straight to the ground.
Even though the prop was feathered (and the pictures from it laying in the bush would suggest that it hit the ground that way), I suspect that it would have developed quite some rotation on the way down from 8000', leading to a good amount of lateral travel. Also the wind on the ground at YSSY was southerly up to 35kt, so I imagine it was even stronger at altitude also helping to push it off course.
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I will be interested to read the report in due course, the southerly would have been a factor which might well explain how it travelled laterally 1/3 of the distance it fell from. I am surprised at the condition it's in going by the initial pictures.
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