Helicopter Pilots

Helicopter Pilots

Funny cartoon about Helicopter Pilots posted in the July 1977

 

"The thing is, helicopters are different from airplanes.  An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberate incompetent pilot, it will fly.  A helicopter does not want to fly.  It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying, immediately and disastrously.
"There is no such thing as gliding helicopter!"
 
"This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why, in general, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooders, introspective anticipators of trouble.  They know if something bad has not happened, it is about to."
 
– Harry Reasoner
July 1977 

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