NASA on Wednesday dropped a perfectly good MD-500 helicopter from 35ft in the air. The jarring conclusion to the test highlights the quite different outcome of the same drop in December. Only in the December case, the helicopter was equipped with a Kevlar honeycomb protector on its underside.
More details on my story on Flightglobal.com, but videos here -
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