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--- Quote from: coppice ---I don't think the Osprey is capable of being used for search and rescue. Isn't its downdraft far too strong it to be able to hover and haul up victims safely?

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It's Lego so it can be 'repurposed' with blasters from an x wing or tie fighter. And why not equip it with swords from a pirate ship? All this play nice PC stuff is a total mind storm!

On the subject of helicopters, I'm waiting for a trending hipster to object to the US Military's use of Indian tribes as names for their helos. Apache, Cheyenne, Chinook, Comanche, Lakota... and not forgetting the  :wtf: Black Hawk.

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TimFox:
You see this from different sides of the political spectrum.  During my college days ("If you remember the sixties, you weren't part of them!"), there was a letter to the Minneapolis Tribune decrying the military's naming of missiles after pagan gods: Jupiter, Atlas, Mercury, etc.  We smart-aleck undergrads wrote back, asking "Would you prefer that our death-dealing weapons of mass destruction be named after John the Baptist, St. Luke, and the Blessed Virgin Mary?"
coppice:

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--- Quote ---While the set clearly depicts how a rescue version of the plane might look, the aircraft is only used by the military.
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I don't think the Osprey is capable of being used for search and rescue. Isn't its downdraft far too strong it to be able to hover and haul up victims safely?

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I don't see why it would be different than any other helicopter

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I was told years ago that there is a limit to how big a helicopter you can use for rescue work, because of there extreme downdraft. The Osprey is huge.
duckduck:
One computer product I just read about uses "Master" and "Minion". I thought that was a pretty good way of getting rid of the s-word while still being understood. If your goal is to mollify people who are offended by hearing or reading the word "slave", that seems like a not-too-bad way to do it.
John B:
Let's change it to Sire and Minion, then all new documentation can be updated from the old bigoted M/S terminology to the new inclusive S/M terminology.
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