Your post made me think of that old saw; “ There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.”
No old. bold pilots? And taught that all airplanes by their nature want to fly, but that helicopters don’t?
Believe one of our early astronauts, a former test pilot, would warn that those who wanted to live long and prosper shouldn’t get into an airplane with only one engine or only one pilot, and shouldn’t ever get into a helicopter, either.