02-09-2026, 08:45 PM
Wow, glad to hear everyone is okay and thank you very much for sharing it with use Graeme! Yes, it's been proven time and time again that it is a very crashworthy airframe in terms of survivability. We just need to find ways to reduce mechanical failures even further, so I'm on board with identifying a suitable tail rotor belt replacement.
I have a few questions:
1. How old was the belt that failed?
2. Was the helicopter stored indoors away from elements and UV light?
3. How many hours (TT) on the helicopter?
4. What brand of belts were installed?
5. Are there temperature indicators installed on the pulleys? If so, was the highest indicated temperature reached?
I'd like to start tracking this kind of data whenever I can. I'll try to scrub information on accidents over time to see if we can create some useful statistics and charts with machine learning/AI tools (I will post them here). However, we'd need enough data for it to work reliably, this could take many years to gather. So if anyone is reading this that knows details of an accident, feel free to create a thread in this forum, even if it occurred many years ago!
I have a few questions:
1. How old was the belt that failed?
2. Was the helicopter stored indoors away from elements and UV light?
3. How many hours (TT) on the helicopter?
4. What brand of belts were installed?
5. Are there temperature indicators installed on the pulleys? If so, was the highest indicated temperature reached?
I'd like to start tracking this kind of data whenever I can. I'll try to scrub information on accidents over time to see if we can create some useful statistics and charts with machine learning/AI tools (I will post them here). However, we'd need enough data for it to work reliably, this could take many years to gather. So if anyone is reading this that knows details of an accident, feel free to create a thread in this forum, even if it occurred many years ago!