Wait until the general public learns about the tech behind most of the currently fielded smoke detectors.
Also, this has long-since been obviated with active acoustic/vibration detection in modern rotor drive-trains.
All that said, every registered civilian and military chopper has high duty-cycle manual inspection of rotor blades too. They use both their Mark I eye-balls and ultrasonic transducers.
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Wait until the general public learns about the tech behind most of the currently fielded smoke detectors.
Also, this has long-since been obviated with active acoustic/vibration detection in modern rotor drive-trains.
All that said, every registered civilian and military chopper has high duty-cycle manual inspection of rotor blades too. They use both their Mark I eye-balls and ultrasonic transducers.