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Old 31st Aug 2008, 23:48
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I wonder is the State Farm Insurance sign has any significance
Yes. State Farm was the first company to ever provide tip-weight insurance for helicopters.

It can be seen in the picture that the craft has exceptionally heavy tip-weights, for dynamic stiffness. The insurance was to protect the company, should the tip weights come off during flight.

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Trivia.
The following was only a rumor.

A few years ago the blade manufacture for the X2 produced a prototype UAV. It had extruded aluminum blades. Then steel shafts were epoxied into them as leading edge weights. Rumor has it that during a display in front of armed services personnel the epoxy in one of the blades cracked and launched its shaft.

I wonder if the insurance company would have paid if some of the generals had been 'shish kabobed' with the flying shaft.

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