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.
Military training is based on the idea that the enlisted have, at worst, an 8th grade education. And having served in the Army, it is known that if something is not expressly forbidden, it is allowed. And Joe's can break anything that is made by the lowest bidder.
Rotor blades are incredibly delicate, they are made of layers of aluminum or kevlar that are bonded together, pressure on one point from a boot heel can bend the layers causing disbonding at which point the blade is unairworthy, hence the No Step warning. I've seen a brand new blade ($52K IIRC) returned to Bell because of a .003" deep scratch that made it scrap according to Bell's own manual. Al_in_Ottawa
Meanwhile, the average human uses 130,000,000 photo receptors for vision to look at that picture, which transmit electrical impulses in a chain reaction of hundreds of enzymatic processes to move 8,960,000 individual bits of visual data per second, the failure of which process at any single point would induce not a reduction of vision, but total blindness, and "educated" people think that entire chain reaction just spontaneously assembled itself over time, which random chance dictates would be about as likely as winning the Powerball Lottery 3,000,000 times per second forever, or tossing a penny in the air and having it land neither heads nor tails, but on edge, 20,000,000 times in a row.
I used to enjoy doing negative "G's" in the Blackhawk. I could put up with the dirt floating up from the floor as long as my helmet visor was down. I found it cool to see the checklist floating by...or a 60 lbs tool box hover at 2 feet. One day I pulled out my survival mirror and aimed it out the upper plexiglass at the rotor...... Hollllly Fuck! I never did negative g's again btays2000
Insane mechanical complexity. Indeed. And STILL there is a need for 'no step' signs.
ReplyDeleteMilitary training is based on the idea that the enlisted have, at worst, an 8th grade education. And having served in the Army, it is known that if something is not expressly forbidden, it is allowed. And Joe's can break anything that is made by the lowest bidder.
DeleteRotor blades are incredibly delicate, they are made of layers of aluminum or kevlar that are bonded together, pressure on one point from a boot heel can bend the layers causing disbonding at which point the blade is unairworthy, hence the No Step warning. I've seen a brand new blade ($52K IIRC) returned to Bell because of a .003" deep scratch that made it scrap according to Bell's own manual.
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Maintained by 20 year-olds.
ReplyDeleteA million moving parts flying in close formation
ReplyDeleteRotating at high velocity around an oil leak.
DeleteFar easier to fly it than to design it and build it, but flying it is way more fun. Is that a Blackhawk?
ReplyDeleteA jet fighter is a million parts in close formation, a helicopter is LOOSE formation!
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ReplyDeleteWhen did they stop using BIM indicators on the blades? I have not flown one since 1990
ReplyDeleteYou'd think you could cram all those blades on and hold it with a single Jesus nut.
ReplyDeleteUh huh.
ReplyDeleteInsane mechanical complexity.
Meanwhile, the average human uses 130,000,000 photo receptors for vision to look at that picture, which transmit electrical impulses in a chain reaction of hundreds of enzymatic processes to move 8,960,000 individual bits of visual data per second, the failure of which process at any single point would induce not a reduction of vision, but total blindness, and "educated" people think that entire chain reaction just spontaneously assembled itself over time, which random chance dictates would be about as likely as winning the Powerball Lottery 3,000,000 times per second forever, or tossing a penny in the air and having it land neither heads nor tails, but on edge, 20,000,000 times in a row.
biology is ALWAYS more complicated than the machines it designs. Though the latest in silico efforts are coming close....
DeletePower Ball drawing tonight is $1.55B
DeleteIndeed. Almost as if we were created.
Delete‘H-60. Best medium helicopter made.
ReplyDeleteI used to enjoy doing negative "G's" in the Blackhawk. I could put up with the dirt floating up from the floor as long as my helmet visor was down. I found it cool to see the checklist floating by...or a 60 lbs tool box hover at 2 feet. One day I pulled out my survival mirror and aimed it out the upper plexiglass at the rotor...... Hollllly Fuck! I never did negative g's again btays2000
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