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Originally Posted by multiweb
What a great video! That first test pilot going through the rotor with just a broken arm to show for it should have played lotto on that day.
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Hi Marc,
Isn't it a wonderful video and so lucky that Young documented everything
on film from the very start.
When the Bell pilot gets thrown from the horse and goes through the rotor
it makes you wince. But to survive it with just a broken arm!
So much for seat belts and safety helmets. Even early on when they are
testing models in static ground tests, you would think the ground
operators would have some head protection from the rotating blades.
Even a steel Army helmet!
When you consider that concurrently in 1946 the aircraft division of Bell
are flying the X-1 with similar well-documented "right-stuff" bravado,
it says something about the men and the times.