Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "" video.

  1. I'm pretty certain of this but its been years since I read this book, so don't hold me to it. In the introduction (by Neil Armstrong) to the book "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon" there's a story about each author (Shepard & Slayton). The one about Slayton was from his test pilot days. I pretty sure it was the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and Deke nearly lost one in a spin test. He was told to bail out but didn't because he still had a lot of altitude. He worked the problem and eventually recovered the plane. After it landed and after he got out the ground crew opened up the bomb bad doors and they said 1000's of rivets and other small bits of metal just fell on the ground. You know that scene in the Blues Brothers when they get out of the car and it just falls apart - yup like that. So the Chinook's not the only case of bits of metal flying in close formation.
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  2.  @blackace7782  One of the other jokes fixed wing guys have about choppers. There's 2 kinds of chopper - ridiculously expensive and idiotically expensive.
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  3. Yeah just like the Titanic was sailing great all the way up until that big white thing.
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