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Jesus nut noun the main nut and bolt holding a helicopter’s rotor blade to the body of the aircraft US, 1977 Presumably one prayed to Jesus that the nut and bolt did not fail.- “If it comes off we lose the main rotors. At that point a helicopter has all the aerodynamic characteristics of a footlocker. We call it the Jesus nut.” — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 2, 1967
- A lot of people thought it opened you to some kind of extra danger, like ground fire spilling in on you instead of just severing the hydraulic system or cutting off the Jesus nut that held the rotor on. — Michael Herr, Dispaches, pp. 255–256, 1977
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 116, 1991
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