Prisoner flees in hijacked helicopter

I guess you have to give them points for style.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_re_eu/belgium_prison_break

 

Interesting that the prison did not open fire on the helicopter??
Shoot the back rotor and the thing can't take off right? Or have I been watching too many movies!

 

what about the prisoner who got out because some yokel at a grocery store faxed in a (poorly worded) letter from the "supreme court" demanding his release?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267684,00.html

That's far more interesting and unique

 

BIG surprise: HICKMAN, Kentucky

 

This didn't surprise me either

 

even so, no letterhead and faxed from a grocery store....huh, it says it was faxed from Bob's Clam Shack

 

Well.. you're half right. It would take a lot of bullets to kill the back rotor because its built to handle massive amounts of torque and flex. Depending on the type of blade used, you may be able to mess the blades up on the tail rotor to cause the helicopter to tear its back rotor apart. Once that happens, the helicopter would become unstable it they attempted to raise off the ground because the back rotor counters the rotational twist of the main rotor.

 

Makes you wonder if the people in the prison were really that ignorant, or if they were in on it, and the fax just gave them cover.

 

This is so cool. I wish my friends would do this for me if something like this ever happened.

 

this has to be the coolest thing I've heard today!

 

maybe the courthouse has to run to the grocery store to send a fax. it is kentucky after all

 

KY: indoor plumbing since 1994