And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The moral of the story: Don't use sand dunes as a braking mechanism.
But seriously, in some of the early helicopter crash footage, there are small explosions in the superstructure of the airframe after the aircraft has been released from the tow vehicle's gantry. What are those?
I wonder what new things they might have learned from these tests, other than confirmation of Newtonian physics?
ReplyDeleteThe moral of the story: Don't use sand dunes as a braking mechanism.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, in some of the early helicopter crash footage, there are small explosions in the superstructure of the airframe after the aircraft has been released from the tow vehicle's gantry. What are those?
The sparks from my heart breaking, watching old birds die.
DeleteAnd here I thought they were explosive bolts releasing the cables...
DeleteDamn...that's a waste of some fine machinery...!
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