Art of a former Huey crew
chief...
Joe Kline
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"HELICOPTER PILOTS ARE DIFFERENT"
By Harry Reasoner
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes.
An airplane by it's nature wants to fly,
and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual
events
or by a deliberately 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 a 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 that if something bad has not happened, it
is about to.
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I've been asked about a page to explain
helicopter flight and aerodynamics...
but it would be redundant to have a page
when
Glenn Bloom's Page says it all...
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Tom Maloney ~ Air Cav Design " Helicopter Art"
Hughes/McDonnell Douglas Helicopters
L.A. City Fire Department Air Operations
L.A. Police Department Air Operations
L.A. County Fire Department Air Operations
L.A. Sheriffs Department Air Operations
Hunting ton Beach Police Department Air Operations
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