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Thats the method that chopped the tail boom off the B429 in Ohio with a Bell factory instructor on board.    Bell says the flight manual now states in is not an authorized manuver in any Bell helicopter.   Tail booms are not stressed for the manuver.   

In fact the only helicopter that the flight manual authorizes the manuver is the Robinson and Chinook.    

That manuver was carried over from that 1st class ARMY training and it is NOT a valid manuver.  

W4 know it all's.