Waste of a H-21s in a test crash 1960s

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wixlova
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Waste of a H-21s in a test crash 1960s

Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:23 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdFBCQAx ... re=related

Why would the Us army crash H-21s like this as shown .. maybe to test the Ft/min sink rate effects and crash survivability maybe?
tom d. friedman
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Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:33 pm

obviously crash dummies volunteered. those egg beaters were long obsolete by then.
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