Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 20, 2011
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Ex-con Michael Ta'bon of Philadelphia, PA, USA, spent all of February 2011 in a homemade jail cell to demonstrate to young people that a life without crime is the best policy! The 3 million gallon pool at Coney Island Amusement Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, is so large- the lifeguards use rowboats to patrol the water! Oops! The unlucky bouquet! In 2009, a plane flew low over a wedding reception in Suvereto, Italy, and a passenger tossed a bouquet to the crowd below- but the flowers were sucked into the plane's rotor, causing an explosion in crashing the aircraft.
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@Night-Gaunt49—-Technically you are correct, as the “rotor” is the main drive shaft that a propellor or helicopter blades is attached to. It is helicopters however, that are considered to be, & commonly known as “rotor craft”, even though the others do have rotors.