A HARD landing? It'll be interesting to see just how hard it landed. Sounds more like a crash. @yohanan Bob said it can be like when you turn off a fan, the blades keep spinning slower until they stop. The helicopter blades can keep spinning on the way down which will lessen the speed of the descent. That's called a "hard landing". Hitting something, the ground, for example, without that buffer is a "crash". @terry A hard landing is also what you experience when landing in a commercial airliner piloted by a former naval aviator! @yohanan I was on an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam war. When a pilot lands on a carrier, it's called a controlled crash. I notice the article comes from the BBC. Since getting the truth from them is also called a controlled crash, the truth is that the helicopter was marine one, the casualty was joe, but since he only lost his head, it reported as nothing was lost. Further down in a different part of the story, there is this: What does 'hard landing' mean? Iranian state media have used the phrase "hard landing" to describe the reported crash of the Iranian President’s helicopter. Hard landing is a phrase often used by authorities in Russia to describe incidents when aircraft crash. It is commonly used by the Russian Defence Ministry when reporting incidents with military aircraft. For example, in June 2022 an Il-76 military cargo plane crashed in Russia’s Ryazan region, killing five service personnel on board. The Russian military initially described the incident as a hard landing, despite the fact that the aircraft was almost completely destroyed on impact. Analysts say the word "crash" is avoided by Russian officials due to fears it can cause upset or panic. This is called newspeak, and other examples include calling an explosion a “bang” and a death of a soldier “an unidentified absence from a military unit." https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-69035051?src_origin=BBCS_BBC < https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/19/world/blue-origin-rocket-ns-25-mission-scn/index.html An abrupt change of subject. Couldn't help posting this. Excerpt: "Dwight completed that challenge and reached the edge of space at the age of 90, making him the oldest person to venture to such heights, according to a spokesperson from Blue Origin" Good for you, Dwight! Excerpts: “I thought I didn’t need it in my life,” Dwight said of the experience on Blue Origin’s livestream after the capsule touched down at 9:46 a.m. CT (10:46 a.m. ET). “But I lied. I really, really did need it.” “It’s a life-changing experience,” he said. “Everybody needs to do this.” The rocket booster landed safely a couple minutes prior to the capsule. During the mission, the crew soared to more than three times the speed of sound, or more than 2,000 miles per hour. And at the peak of the flight, passengers experienced a few minutes of weightlessness and striking views of Earth through the cabin windows." Imagine how it's going to feel like! I really admire people like him. Way too many people much younger than him think they have to sit in a rocking chair at home. Courts in England are reportedly looking to scrap the requirement for barristers to wear traditional wigs amid claims that they discriminate against lawyers with “Afro-Caribbean hair”. The iconic manner of dress in English courtrooms may become wokism’s latest scalp as demands have been made to abandon the requirement of barristers to wear wigs in front of the court because they are “culturally insensitive”, The Telegraph reports. A common practice dating back to at least 1685, the wearing of wigs came under scrutiny.... “The wigs certainly should go. There isn’t any place in a modern society for barristers to be wearing 17th-century fashion,” he said this week... @patrician Astonishing! Maybe if they dyed the wigs pink, it would be more acceptable. @paulr what goes through their head while wearing the wig is make believe. What they should do is place the wig on their other end and then sit on their head. That way they could stay asleep and no one would notice. Americans are not only suffering from “Bidenflation” but from “tipflation” as well, an April survey from Talker Research found. The survey found that Americans are tipping more than they want to for various reasons, including the pressure of potentially awkward social situations. That includes the swiveled tablet and waiters and waitresses sometimes bringing the card reader to the restaurant table. Most, 56 percent, feel that they are routinely feeling a “higher pressure” to tip. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/18/survey-shows-tipflation-affecting-americans-wallets/ 
by Will Vernon reporting from Washington DC:
Woke Scalp: England Courtrooms Look to Ban Wigs for Being ‘Culturally Insensitive’ to People With African Hair:
Prominent barrister Leslie Thomas KC, also of African descent, has described the wigs as a “ridiculous costume...."
Survey Shows ‘Tipflation’ Affecting Americans’ Wallets:
Further, nearly one quarter across the board, 23 percent, said they would “likely” tip for a service that did not require human interaction, showing that this is becoming more ingrained.
