Posted on 10/02/2021 10:47:40 AM PDT by fugazi
On page four we see that former Royal Air Force parachute instructor-turned daredevil George Hopkins is stuck on top of Devil's Tower. Hopkins landed, but his sledgehammer, his anchor, and the rope all missed.
Landing on top of the monument was impressive considering that parachute techniques and equipment were relatively primitive. But you have to wonder where they went wrong with the gear. The top of Devil's Tower is roughly an acre, which wouldn't be too difficult to hit, unless they didn't take into account the "negative lead" required when dropping from a moving platform since your rope bag is already has forward velocity as it leaves the plane.
Worst-case scenario, you could fly back and return with a second coil of rope. Either way, it seems that the stunt execution was good but the preparation was poor. Even if things had gone according to plan, the rope would have been too short. Stranded a quarter-mile above Wyoming and exposed to the elements, it will be several days before a team of rescuers can climb up and rescue Hopkins.
Many of us would be far more concerned about what was going to happen once we got back to mom than the perilous descent if we had pulled something like that. Hopkins' mother doesn't kill him, since he enlists in the U.S. Army and serves as a parachute instructor during the war.
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I hadn’t seen a picture of the top.
Yes there is a big difference - kids were pointing to our Flag with their arms while reciting the Pledge, the arm straight out from the shoulder unlike the Nazi salute where the arm is raised. This practice was soon ended when war started for that very reason that people were saying it was the Nazi salute when it wasn't.
The “Sieg Heil” salute looks pretty similar to me as what kids looked like saluting the flag in the pictures I’ve seen. But we had been saluting that way long before the Nazis ruined it and we are pledging allegiance to a flag and our republic while Germans were constantly pledging allegiance to an utterly evil man.
That’s the big difference.
True that but I’ve seen several pictures where the kids were using their open hand straight out pointing to the flag not raised up high like the Nazi salute.
It was claimed by Mussolini that it was the Roman salute. I think I’ve read that the historical evidence for that is poor. It’s more a romantic fantasy toward things Classical Roman then reality.
I’ve read something similar so you’re close; it was not invented by the Nazi as well as the swastika.
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