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The salute of uniform bodies (eg. army, police) originated from knights who lifted their visors to show their face to a royalty. This depends on where you get your history from. I was taught that it originated with knights also, but that they raised their right hand, typically their weapon hand, to their visor, away from their weapon, as a sign of trust when meeting friendly forces on the battlefield. This was done because the visor obscured the kinghts face, and it was hard to tell who was friend or foe. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First off would be your sight.
Makes you wonder how they figured that out. :rolleyes:
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you can not tickle yourself 
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Originally posted by dealer502: you can not tickle yourself Yeah, and that is one of the stranger ones.
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Originally posted by dealer502: you can not tickle yourself i have.. tickled my feet.. EEP!
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I'm not sure you'd want to snap-roll a large transport aircraft, but you could probably barrel-roll one, including a B-747. The legendary Tex Johnson, chief test pilot for Boeing's 707 program, barrel-rolled the prototype 707 at a Gold Cup hydroplane race in Washington State. According to Clive Irving's book "Widebody" on the development of the 747, Johnson's explanation was that it was "a one-G maneuver. The airplane never knew it was doing anything but flying straight and level, with aileron deflection. I started at about four hundred feet. Applied up elevator, held the one G, put the aileron in. After the roll I was at sixteen hundred feet, climbed out during the maneuver. This is not risky. If you hold one G you don't uncover the fuel pumps. There's nothing that can happen to the airplane."
While the 747 is larger than the 707, it's not THAT much larger....
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Amazing. NINE and a half miles! The barrel roll alone would be incredible to ride or even just view. Is one G enough to keep my favorite beverage on the tray table?
I guess my fascination lies with the ability of the airplane to even lift into the air fully loaded, was scary to me the first time.
Dunno on the helicopter, however I have seen a RC copter fly level inverted at about 25 mph six feet off the ground.
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Originally posted by dealer502: you can not tickle yourself Rub your finger, or tongue, on the tip of the roof of your mouth... would probably tickle.. I know it does to me... More to come, tonight.. Ray
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Originally posted by Ray: Originally posted by dealer502: [b]you can not tickle yourself
[/b]lol, it works for me too!! or when you swirl ur finger or something on a certain part of ur stomach......er.. no? just me? 
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Originally posted by *Sway*: Originally posted by Ray: [b] Originally posted by dealer502: [b]you can not tickle yourself Rub your finger, or tongue, on the tip of the roof of your mouth... would probably tickle.. I know it does to me... [/b]
or when you swirl ur finger or something on a certain part of ur stomach......er.. no? just me? [/b]I know exactly what you mean about the tickling your own stomache thing. heh and boy can I see some leghumping coming from that comment too.  vives des leghumpers!
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Yeah, I keep checking too. I'm afraid that just as the site goes down my car will burst into flames or something (knocking rapidly on wood)!
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yay! im not crazy, thanks Kim! hehe 
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