The helicopter used for the Space Elevator Games, a McDonnell Douglas MD530FF, was trucked in from its base in Washington. The rotor blades were taken off for transport and consequently had to be re-installed when it got to NASA-Dryden.
This occurred on Monday morning and I filmed part of it. During filming, I misspoke and said that the mechanics were reassembling ‘the rotor’ – of course I meant the rotor blades.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaDPB6hcWC4[/youtube]
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Piece of cake…