Fun fact: People abbreviate it “heli” or “copter”, when in fact the two parts of the word are “helico” and “pter”. (Think: helical or pterodactyl)
Try pronouncing it helico-pter, and pronounce the P and make it rhyme with “tare” as in pterodactyl. You’ll sound like you have a French accent, or something.
Very fun fact, so much so I wanted to know more.
originates from the Greek helix (ἕλιξ), genitive helikos (ἕλῐκος), “helix, spiral, whirl, convolution”[1] and pteron (πτερόν) “wing”
Imagine saying helicopad and quadpter!
This is also one of my favourite fun facts! :D
Why was the prison keeping him on the roof instead of inside the prison where he couldn’t escape? 🤔
Really good at climbing.
My old office was near Strangeways m and one day we saw a drone very conspicuously hovering high over the prison yard. Turns out that drones smuggling in contraband has become a major problem in the last few years.
Here’s a another tale of a helicopter-related prison break:
During the 1970s, Ireland (specifically
Northern Irelandnorthern province of Ulster) entered a period of conflict known as ‘The Troubles.’ The conflict was mostly concentrated in the north but occasionally would spill into the rest of Ireland. One notable (and devastating) example was the dual car bombings in Dublin and Monaghan in 1973. But the funniest episode of ‘The Troubles’ would also happen in the Republic that same year.Because of the violence in the north, the Irish government took steps to stop activity related to Republican (not the American GOP kind) paramilitaries such as the Provisional IRA and their smaller and more openly communist rival INLA. This was in spite of a sympathetic population. The party Fine Gael came to power with an anti-crime promise (sound familiar?) and another promise to put a stop to all paramilitary activity in the country.
On the morning of Halloween, 1973, the IRA hijacked a helicopter and told its pilot to fly towards a prison on the outskirts of Dublin called Mountjoy. The helicopter landed in the prison yard and, despite the commotion, were able to secure the IRA members that were intended for the escape. This led to a large a manhunt involving both the police and the military. Two of the men were recaptured not long after but one of them wouldn’t be recaptured until 1977 - a whole 5 years later!
She’s a keeper!
I’m not mad at it.
Love takes us to strange places and makes us to do even stranger things…
No almost needed, that’s dope.
I wish someone would go through the effort of learning how to pilot a helicopter just so I can be free…
That’s love
I remember the first time I heard of helicopter prison breaks. What is so incredible is how common they actually where and the countermeasures developed against them.
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Honeybunny!
Pronounced mole?
No, mole is pronounced /moʊl/ (if you’re American)
…oh OK, very nice Mr…what did you said your name was?
Oh, one last question before we give you a pilots license, have you or will you have in the future a husband or wife or close relatively living in captivity at the moment?
Is the captivity legal or illegal, please explain.
Have had to purchase a rope ladder or just copious amounts of rope from the home Depot recently?
I love what you did there, but to be biblically accurate, they asked zero safety / security questions in the 80s.
“Have you ever used drugs, like cocaine?”
“No.”
“Oh, would you like some?”
If she wanted she WOULD
Today someone would just watch a YouTube video and then steal the helicopter. Nobody wants to put the work in anymore.
The GTA generation
Final words: “I’ll just raw dog a helicopter. How hard can it be?”
Scene opens: a still of a helicopter with blades sheared off after colliding with an electrical pole, sparks are spraying from the severed power lines. You can see the passenger seat, there’s a man in a jumpsuit peeling a nectarine painted like a grenade, looking worried and shouting. The camera pans to the pilot’s seat with a scrappy brunette a determined, but concerned look on her face. Cue record scratch.
Brunette: “Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.”
Screen fades to black. End scene.
Judging by Matt from Tech Diff doing it in a sub 2-hour lesson im going to go with: harder than the average idiot could handle, but if you’ve played like, any amount of games with 3d helo style movement it’s actually easy to pick up
Even easier if you’re already used to using your 4 limbs for different purposes (like riding a motorcycle)
This just made me think… people always complain about missing out on a future that promised them flying cars. Turns out that we have flying cars now. We just call them “helicopters” and it turns out they’re hard as fuck to operate.
A Cessna is also a flying car and they’re easy to operate.
and all it takes to own one is millions of dollars!
we used to be a hijinks society
The last attempted helicopter prison escape in the Wikipedia list is from 2020
Hijinks are harder now than they were in the '80s but not extinct; though even in the '80s success rarely lasted more than a few months for helicopter escapees
antics is how you resist fascism
Never underestimate the power of shenanigans
Leftists these days just don’t have the whimsy of old.
it’s legit a problem. some of the leftists i meet have no interest in engaging in silliness when silliness is what got a lot of us involved in the first place
