Class of negative-"g", near-zero-airspeed maneuvers invented by the
Czechs, where the gyroscopic precession of the engine and propeller
is used as an additional flight control along with the three usual
ones, aileron, elevator and rudder.
"This crew risked their lives to save this little girl,
and the Taliban response to that was to try to shoot down an
unarmed helicopter. This makes no sense at all."
Source: Army Colonel Michael Rose, Task Force
Falcon and 10th Combat Aviation Brigade commander in Afghanistan,
on an August 1 incident in which a man on the ground opened fire on
a US medevac helicopter transporting a two-year-old girl to the
hospital for burn treatments.
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