Every vehicle on the road today has been subjected to a battery of safety tests, including being smashed into walls with the ubiquitous crash-test dummies loaded inside. But who is keeping our nation’s chopper pilots safe?
The answer: NASA.
In what looks like a boss way to spend a weekend, the folks at NASA have been examining impact crashes of helicopters, like the one above. Yes, I know it doesn’t look like much, but according to the NASA page, the occupants would have “lurched forward violently, suffering potentially spine-crushing injuries.” You can see that in the slo-mo.
No, I don’t know why this responsibility falls to NASA. Nor do I particularly care. I’m just glad that they filmed it and put it on YouTube.
(via BB)
Grant Hamilton
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