The German armies were now being pressed into an ever-smaller area between Falaise and Argentan, and relentlessly pounded with artillery and air strikes.
So your trapeze and all your flying through the air, what did that actually look like for you on the day, like what are you sitting on, is there wind machines?
Fast forward to the 1950s, and surveyors got a bit of help from photogrammetry, detailed photos taken from the air that they could use to measure heights and distances.
So the reason the heavy kid sits on the ground while the light kid is up in the air is that theirmutual center of mass is on the heavy kid's side of the pivot.