What are the average chances of you dying from a flying rotor blade injury?

Answer 1

Slim to none.

Answer 2

Very slim - Here's Why:

The rotor blades of helicopters are attached by hardened steel bolts designed to withstand very high shear forces created by the centripetal force of the blades spinning and constantly pulling the blades outward, away from the main rotor hub.

If a helicopter experinces a blade strike of some kind, chances are whatever it hits will give first. If the object is massive and hard enough (Like a large anough tree) the blade itself will shear where it strikes, and tear through the blade which usually results in gashes in the blade and alot of small schrapnel (internal honeycomb, skin of the blade, etc..)

If you've ever seen a catastrophic helicopter accident where the entire blade hits something like the ground which isn't going to give, then you know the entire transmission along with the hub and blade assembly will probably be ripped from the airframe, yet remain together.

If by chance an otherwise intact spinning blade were to break free because a faulty bolt sheared, the blade would be slung outward and upward as its lift was no longer restricted by the hub. This has rarely happened and if it did would probably be while in flight at high RPM...

So.... Very slim.

Note: I see Thin Kaboudit had quoted a reputable source on Rotor Blade injury, and this is true, for a blade which is spinning and still attached. Many flight line personnel have walked into a spinning tail rotor which is virtually invisible when it spins at a high RPM. My answer was based on "Flying Rotor Blade" which I took to mean one which was detached from the aircraft.

Answer 3

You ask: What are the average chances of you dying from a flying rotor blade injury?
1. The same as your chances of being a stand up comic.
2. The same as your chances of hitting the lottery.
3. The same as your chances of getting a job.
4. The same as your chances of finding love.
5. The same as my chances of dying from getting hit by a UFO.
Great questions ahole

Answer 4

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Answer 5

4 out of 5

Answer 6

Given
1 you are bored enough to ask really stupid questions

and

2 you think about flying rotor blades and dying a lot

I'd say darned near one hundred percent!

Answer 7

well that depends on a lot of factors = but if it hits a major blood vessel the chances of dying from bleeding out are pretty good - for instance if it hit you in the neck - chances of surviving that are very poor. I have actually take care of a man who was in the arm with a fan blade from a car and he lost his arm. Had his family and friends not acted as quickly and wisely had they had, he could be dead. (the placed a tourniquet above the wound)

Answer 8

that would depend on your location, occupation etc. Closer you are to an aiport, the better the chances. I'm a pilot and they teach you in the very first training that most aircraft you see will be close to an airport, and the further you are away, the fewer. Pretty logical. However, note that you'd pretty much have to intentionally get hit because aircraft are inspected annually and very thouroughly, and accidents are much less frequent than with cars.

Answer 9

What the heck is a flying rotor blade?

Answer 10

50/50 chance. Because, I've seen people, with bullets in the head survive!! And women & men with their throats slit, that had horribly ugly scars, on their necks, that lived to tell their stories.. So, it basically depends upon where their hit, and how fast they get medical attention. Bottom-line, is it is possible they could very easily survive!! So, hopefully you didn't ask that question because, your contemplating doing this to someone! God-Help you, if you are, you always get caught ! Could take 20 years, but it always catches up with you!!! Lets just hope your in the medical business, and need to know this, for school, or something to that effect...

Answer 11

Depends