Reply to post: Re: "a supersonic ballet"

Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter

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Re: "a supersonic ballet"

'Last time I checked, helicopters find it to be rather difficult to get even close to "supersonic".'

Maybe straight down but level flight would require the leading blades to be supersonic while the trailing blades would be stalled.

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