(0037) Middle of the night situation again, which is no great shakes as it at least gives the nightowls something else to look at. Hope you’re sleeping as snug as a bug in a rug. I’m off there again for an attempt at sleep n2. (0204)
3. Rivets
Screenshot from it:
Some comments from the thread:
2. The helicopter crash in more detail
Just a note on Vince … he’s American but the dubbed text made me smile because of the nearly hysterical man in the clip who nonetheless seemed to know a fair bit and he’s certainly not American.
MMutR was here yesterday and we were discussing precisely this thing, plus the mast bumping of the previous post on the issue, also yesterday.
The thing which struck me, a layman, was just how fragile the whole rotor attachment to mast is .. it has a circular motion, plus up and down motion, plus twisting and flexing motion, let alone dipping for fwd thrust … all on the top of that thin mast, with body and six people below it?
Also given thermals, birds, congested airspace and all sorts … even on a regular flight path. Yes, regular is good but contingency allowance is also vital with such an “unsafe”, in my book, piece of machinery.
My last catamaran was a racing boat, it was built to tolerances, inc. alloy beams, very light but engineered well. However, all machines develop fatigue in certain places after a certain time, in its expected lifespan. The reason I was thrown from her on that last fateful day, about fifteen feet through the air, whilst she happily sailed on, was that my checks were all vulnerable parts except one … my own trapeze wire … and that’s what snapped, nothing on the boat itself.
Yet that error was only half life threatening … there were actually options, inc. swimming for shore. In a copter … there are no options. Also combine this post item with the one above it, Sun 3. Last thing … consider two versus three blade if ever planning to go by copter.
1. IYE corner
a. On Sat 17. Good. Bring it on.
https://brutalproof.net/2024/05/the-cia-created-the-european-union-eu/
b. Also this:
https://archive.org/details/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discover_202308/mode/2up