As wingers like Greenpeace and indeed the govenrment keep telling us, the oil industry will be virtually dead by 2050 and this got me thinking.
Many helicopter ops are to oil fields and I was thinking, what would happen to helicopter operations when the oil runs out? Also what about airports such as Aberdeen which would lose a significant preportion (34% +) if these helicopter flights ended,
what does the future hold for helicopters?
I have noticed they are being increasingly used in a corportate role, your thoughts please.
By: Moggy C - 28th September 2005 at 00:37
… what does the future hold for helicopters?
I’d take a long shot and guess that as the need for fuel economy becomes paramount we’ll see more Fairey Rotordyne / Osprey-type combination aircraft / helicopters and an upsurge of interest in the autogyro.
Moggy
By: Flood - 27th September 2005 at 22:36
As wingers like Greenpeace and indeed the govenrment keep telling us, the oil industry will be virtually dead by 2050 and this got me thinking.
“Wingers”? That some sort of football position isn’t it? Greenpeace United…? :rolleyes:
By 2050 we will all be floating around in atomic powered hover cars, the seas will have dried up, and we shall all be emigrating to colonies just off the shoulder of Orion anyway. The oil companies will have finally admitted years before that they had long had the ability to generate usable power from sea water (hence the dry seas) and cold fusion will be old-stylee when compared to the commonly used teleport system. Bliar, or rather his brain preserved in a jar of formaldehyde, will still be in power with Gordon Brown still waiting his turn and Tom Cruise will still be a shortarse with lots of money.
Woo.
Flood
By: frankvw - 27th September 2005 at 20:38
What exactly is the question ?
By: Barnowl - 27th September 2005 at 16:22
Well there is the theory that helicopters don’t fly by combustible fuel driving rotor blades at all!!!
They’re all so hideously ugly that the Earth repels them, and so does the universe around it, so they stay suspended between the two.
BARNOWL
By: Rlangham - 27th September 2005 at 15:37
When the oil runs out i would have thought all helicopter operations would end, if theres nothing to fuel them with or keep the moving parts properly greased and lubricated if need be.
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