Am I the only one that read that, and immediately pictured a horse reaching terminal velocity?

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And, assuming that soldier could find a place to put the huge monstrosity, I'm willing to bet he appreciated the hell out of it. It's really a fantastic combat/utility knife.

Nibbles got you too, huh? He's been munching everything I put up tonight.

Well I'll withhold my opinion of the Miss America pageant as a whole, except to say it's outdated at best, but I will say that this is the internet - and on the internet, spurious and random one-upsmanship is not only expected but virtually required.

I too carried a Leatherman with my LMF II. While yours was the Rolls Royce of combat knives, mine was the Unimog. While it was pretty impractical as a daily driver and was enormous and got shitty gas mileage, there were very few things it couldn't do, and its mere presence inspired confidence and awe.

When I was in Iraq I had a Gerber LMF II (Pictured: an LMF II doing things I doubt this Kramer knife would) that I sharpened to the point that it would also reliably slice right through full water bottles and full soda cans. The LMF II has a 3/16" thick blade. It can be reliably used as a prybar.

Rape?

You forget, like most people seem to, that the majority of motorcycle injuries and deaths come not from dropping/flipping/skidding them, but from other motorists just straight hitting you. It doesn't matter how big the engine is when you get nailed by an Exploder with a careless driver.

$280,000.

Pretty sure the medical bills would offset that.

I don't fly them. I fix them. I've seen them break in ways that would boggle your mind.

I'm not saying a cyclic has never broken, but that's not what happened here. If it was broken, he wouldn't have been able to pitch up.

Autorotating is a lot more down than forward. In any case, whatever the hell it was he was doing, it was not autorotating, so the whole point is moot.

Again, what he did is not anything remotely related to what you do to land a chopper in an emergency. Helicopters lose forward speed all by themselves unless you're holding the cyclic forward. If you're doing an emergency landing, lift is the only thing you need to worry about, and ANY movement of the cyclic just…

I don't think you understand. When helicopters break, they pretty much just fall straight down. They don't glide. At all. If the engine isn't working (and it clearly is), you don't use the cyclic at all because that just wastes energy. You go down, then you yank on the collective to try to autorotate. It's an up/down…

I bet she didn't use her turn signals.

That's not the worst part. The worst part is when it decides to rain during a sand storm. That's right. Mud rain. It's the worst thing on the fucking planet, and after experiencing one or two it's not hard to see why everybody in that whole area is just constantly pissed off.

BA-ZINGA!

The maneuver he was performing was not one one would perform if his aircraft was malfunctioning. Helicopters just don't work that way.