From: Cotty
On 17/12/09, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Helicopter pilots like to play. If you're around them when the brass
>aren't watching too closely, they'll show you.
In Chickenhawk the author recounts how they used to clear young trees in
the chosen landing area *as they landed* with the rotors.....
A GOOD PILOT can still fly with a couple feet missing off the end of a
rotor blade. It's not as big a problem if you manage to take more or
less the same amount off of the end of both blades.
Takes a pretty big tree to do that. Small trees just kind of beat up the
leading edge of the rotor blade.
Dustoff pilots were always the best of the best.
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