The above said, yearly inspections and maintenance should catch all of this. I don't know what the protocols are at the Udvar. Especially if they were closed for a couple of years.
My guess is that it’s a parallel construction, especially since I’ve also heard it affectionately referred to as the F*** nut (I.e. what you say when you skin your knuckles instead of who you pray to when it gives out.)
It's not a parallel construction... We are talking about a helo here, are we not?My guess is that it’s a parallel construction, especially since I’ve also heard it affectionately referred to as the F*** nut (I.e. what you say when you skin your knuckles instead of who you pray to when it gives out.)
Although that wouldn’t be the first thing stagehands picked up from the navy. I’ve heard theories that’s where the taboo on whistling came from.
Or: You can trim an airplane to fly itself, but a helicopter is always trying to kill you.I'm right there with you on the need for redundancy in our work, but helicopters are no strangers to single points of failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut. (I much prefer the Jesus nut on a C-Clamp that just skins your knuckles when it gives out.)
I've heard it put that airplanes want to fly, but helicopters are just so loud and ugly that the earth repels them.
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