I worked with a guy who was a pilot in Vietnam and he said torquing that thing down was the favorite part of the job. Apparently flying out there sucked, he was telling me the other guys would string zipline-like wire from tree to tree in clearings to catch tail rotors, all manner of shit, so if you weren't flying it was pretty nice
"Apparently flying out there sucked"
Well I'd say
In Finnish there's a similar term, kuningaspultti or king bolt. Used for things like bolt retaining timing gear on a crank shaft of an engine.
How about other languages?
That fucker is chewed UP. Hopefully it didn’t go back on aircraft after removal.
We were planning to update the avionics package and put it back in service for another 20 years
It's interesting that this has similar nomenclature to jesus clips despite the use of "jesus" as an adjective having notably different connotations.
