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Dec-8-2004 01:45

Hello all.
I'm fairly new to Sleuth and I thought I might share a little hobby of mine with you all. Here's something for that sad moment when the mysteries of the day are all done.

Thousands lay up gold within this house,
but no man made it.
Spears past counting guard this house,
but no man wards it.
What is it?

Aug-12-2006 18:00

Well, very, very, very close. It was hovering. It wasn't on the ground. Can you add more detail?

Aug-12-2006 18:57

Something was holding it up? Or there's something about the "anatomy" of copters that allow them to stay up without the engine? Lol, I know nothing about them, so I don't even know how to explain what I mean... :)

Aug-12-2006 20:47

It landed on a building that was 200ft high?

Aug-13-2006 01:18

Remember, the riddle said: it was hovering 200 feet above the sea, not hovering 200 feet above sea level.

Ms. Brennan24: Nothing was holding it up. The engine was shut off while the helicopter was hovering. While many people think a helicopter would plummet to the ground in that case, they are mistaken. Like an airplane, a helicotper still has it's "wings": the main rotor which is the one on the top. It can still be controlled during the glide but would just descend at a greater rate; around 1500 feet per minute as opposed to the usual comfortable 500 feet per minute.

Not knowing where you live, I'm not sure this example will help, but where I live, we have these trees that lose these wing-like things that, when dropped by the tree, float down in a spinning fashion. They do not plummet. It's that concept. The maneuver for landing a helicopter without engine power is called "autorotation" and when done skillfully, all occupants will walk away from the "crash".

Aug-16-2006 20:34

Wow! Did I clear the room or what with that aviation lesson? OK. In order to get this thread moving again, here is the answer and no more lessons:

The helicopter was hovering only a few inches above a helicopter landing pad on an oil platform out at sea.

Aug-16-2006 21:25

*I* found it very interesting; I just didn't know how to formulate a solution to the ridde, lol.

Aug-17-2006 00:09

*brain is autorotating*

*giddy from dizzybrain, staggering away totally unsmoothly*

Aug-17-2006 03:57

Mr. crunchpatty,

At the enormous risk of stepping out of character: lmao!

Barry

Aug-17-2006 17:28

Let's get another riddle going, shall we? This one test your vocabulary skills.

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Aug-18-2006 09:45

Startling.
Starting.
Staring.
String.
Sting.
Sing.
Sin.
In.
I.

:-D