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Old 20th May 2009, 19:44
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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By the same measure, are helicopters "dangerous"?
The folklore that I have chosen to believe is that helicopters have lots more "Jesus bolts" than fixed wing aircraft, where a "Jesus bolt" is a single point of failure such that if it breaks you've no options but to call upon Jesus.

I expect the helicopter pilots to join in and say that this is a load of ******* and that wings spontaneously fall off fixed wing aircraft just as often as little widgets break inside helicopter gearboxes.
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