Who said it was poorly maintained? The fact that they still fly 40 years old helicopter suggests that it's well maintained and reliable, why change something that works? Especially considering that Iran-Russia relations only recently normalized and there is not much russian hardware in Iran anyway. Investing in a few aircrafts and training few pilots/technicians is not smart.
I started a thread before his death was confirmed. Maybe mods should merge?
Maybe the submarines and Orcas did it, for King Neptune?
Remember the language--the joke was from Israel, thus in Hebrew. It's a closer match than "helicopter".Oddly, splitting "helicopter" in this way "heli-copter" is etymologically incorrect, despite having become the accepted usage. The appropriate split was originally "helico-pter", meaning "spiral-wing".Nah, it was a Mossad officer named "Eli Copter"!Yeah, the thing is, helicopters aren't particularly unsafe. All things considered, autorotation is a fairly interesting and important feature of most.I think Bomb described a helicopter.
Still, any Boeing executive can tell you, insufficient maintenance is a real killer. Apparently the helicopter was an ancient and unmaintained piece of shit, and that was the best they could spring for theirfigureheadcompletely respectable president.
(And Hamas seems to think the joke was real.)
We also see "pter" meaning "wing" in modern English words like Pterodactyl (finger wing).
It's very cute that you imagine the modern Hebrew word for "Helicopter" might have a different etymology than that of the modern English word.Remember the language--the joke was from Israel, thus in Hebrew. It's a closer match than "helicopter".Oddly, splitting "helicopter" in this way "heli-copter" is etymologically incorrect, despite having become the accepted usage. The appropriate split was originally "helico-pter", meaning "spiral-wing".Nah, it was a Mossad officer named "Eli Copter"!Yeah, the thing is, helicopters aren't particularly unsafe. All things considered, autorotation is a fairly interesting and important feature of most.I think Bomb described a helicopter.
Still, any Boeing executive can tell you, insufficient maintenance is a real killer. Apparently the helicopter was an ancient and unmaintained piece of shit, and that was the best they could spring for theirfigureheadcompletely respectable president.
(And Hamas seems to think the joke was real.)
We also see "pter" meaning "wing" in modern English words like Pterodactyl (finger wing).
So what if it's a wrong split.It's very cute that you imagine the modern Hebrew word for "Helicopter" might have a different etymology than that of the modern English word.Remember the language--the joke was from Israel, thus in Hebrew. It's a closer match than "helicopter".Oddly, splitting "helicopter" in this way "heli-copter" is etymologically incorrect, despite having become the accepted usage. The appropriate split was originally "helico-pter", meaning "spiral-wing".Nah, it was a Mossad officer named "Eli Copter"!Yeah, the thing is, helicopters aren't particularly unsafe. All things considered, autorotation is a fairly interesting and important feature of most.I think Bomb described a helicopter.
Still, any Boeing executive can tell you, insufficient maintenance is a real killer. Apparently the helicopter was an ancient and unmaintained piece of shit, and that was the best they could spring for theirfigureheadcompletely respectable president.
(And Hamas seems to think the joke was real.)
We also see "pter" meaning "wing" in modern English words like Pterodactyl (finger wing).
