{"id":524,"date":"2011-05-06T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=524"},"modified":"2011-05-06T00:15:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T04:15:03","slug":"vortex-is-what-shot-down-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Vortex is what “shot down” helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg is reporting that the helicopter that landed hard during the assault on Osama Bin Laden’s compound was not due to mechanical failure.<\/p>\n

Sikorsky (the manufacturer) says that trying to hover over an enclosed area with an 18 foot high wall would have created a vortex of air underneath the helicopter that causes lift of the rotors to dissipate. Temperature may also have played a role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg is reporting that the helicopter that landed hard during the assault on Osama Bin Laden’s compound was not due to mechanical failure. Sikorsky (the manufacturer) says that trying to hover over an enclosed area with an 18 foot high … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-not-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}