11mo ago

Daww, it just wants scritchies

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This is cute but i’m sure someone in the comments is about to say this is somehow bad for him or the owner is abusive or something.
JUST LET US HAVE THIS!
- The helicopter depends on a specific rotor geometry to fly. By putting the helicopter's weight on its rotors and bending them you risk severely damaging its mobility.
- Yeah you can bet on the "tHiS iS HeLiCoPtEr AbUsE" morons arriving sooner or later
Why is "helicopter" commonly shortened to "helo" rather than "heli" ?
- What's really neat linguistically is that "helicopter" isn't a compound of "heli" and "copter," but rather "helico" (as in helix, helical) and "pter" (as in pterodactyl).
  "Rebracketing" is when this happens (i.e., the split in the word is moved in colloquial language).
  
  I would totally watch your TED talk
  
  “helico” (as in helix, helical) and “pter” (as in pterodactyl)
  Oh, yeah. For those people that keep insisting that the rotating wing is not an helix... go change the name!
- In German it is the other way around, Helikopter gets shortened to heli
  
  Yeah and cell phones are called handies, so shrug
- Not 100% sure on this, but it may be due to 'helo' being more audibly distinct than 'heli' over a shitty garbled radio?
  It could also be from different regional/national accents of English pronouncing helicopter as basically hee-lo-copter, sort of like how there are different pronunciations of Uranus or nuclear?
  
  shitty garbled radio
  Which is the standard method of communication aviation has somehow agreed on using "for safety reasons".
- I guess it's easier to say
- Either because it comes across more clearly over comms, or someone flipped a coin.
  But, it is called that outside of the military, sometimes...sort of.
  
  Heliskiing would be a lot more interesting if it was a fuel-efficient way to return the helicopter to the airport down in the valley after flying something up to the mountain.
- It isn't
Should I also scritch the pieces of heli on the runway? There seem to be pieces...maybe I should call the vet
- Definitely don’t scritch. It showing it’s belly means it trusts that it can show you the belly without worrying you’ll touch it.
  
  Ah so they're kind of like kitties, then? Do you get bunny kicks if you touch the belly?
Keep away!
It's a hunting technique: once you get too close they just jump on you to and crush you to squeeze out the juicy bits.
Once it shows signs of discomfort leave it alone to avoid trust issues
I like seeing the detail that they painted the bottom sky-blue, and the top ocean-blue. Easy ounce of stealth?
- Enough stealth to avoid most visual observations outside of the rotor noise distance, perchance.
  
  Is that a rotor sound? Nah probably just the wind.
Snoo snoo

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