The Blackhawk and it's derivitives as well as the Apache, do have a stabilator on the back. I'm not real familiar with just how it's used, but I'm sure if it jammed you'd get a big pitch change, up or down, if you had much forward motion at all, and maybe even if you were hovering as the downwash from the main rotor hit the stabililator. Better to just jam the cyclic control.
This is not at all too late for change...it's one of the reasons I put excerpts on my site...gets lots of good feedback.
I'll have something fixed on the site within 24-48 hours.
Thanks for the constructive criticism.
Thanks for reading the others. I believe you will find this one the best of all to date...which is as it should be.
I found, that in some circles, the cyclic is also referred to as the aileron and elevator. (Check here.)
Also, I decided to give these National Guard troops a Blackhawk (I called it out as a Huey in the body of the excertp) and then rewrod that section to account for all of this and hopefully remove any confusion.
Here's how it looks now.
The blast from the second ultra-light also expanded to the rear, and threw shrapnel behind it…right into the path of the oncoming National Guard helicopter. As the pilot madly adjusted his collective, cyclic and stabilator controls to avoid the blast by climbing over and around it, the shock wave struck the helicopter and jammed both his cyclic and stabilator controls into position. It also severely damaged the tail rotor. At the same instant, shrapnel blasted through the compartment, killing the pilot and severely wounding the co-pilot.What do you think?
With the aircraft locked into its current attitude, the tail rotor tearing itself apart, and the helicopter beginning to spin wildly , the Blackhawk impacted the side of the Washington Monument, five feet below the doomed Secret Service detail leader and the remainder of his team, who were mercifully, quickly incinerated by the fire and blast that raced through their observation deck.