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To: Sans-Culotte

I rode in Choppers in the Marines.
That is always in the back of your mind.
They need airbags.................


10 posted on 02/23/2022 6:20:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

The Hughes 5000 (Special Forces called them “Little Birds”) was designed to collapse in a controlled manner if there was a hard landing while auto-rotation. But that was essentially a recon platform. Not sure that you could do anything like that in a utility helicopter.


26 posted on 02/23/2022 9:51:10 AM PST by Tallguy
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