[Porkchop]

Harry Reasoner once wrote the following about helicopter pilots:

"The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by an 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 generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to."




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[xone]

There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

Some have excellent autorotative characteristics.

[ssschev]

Helicopters don’t fly. They beat the air into submission 😂

[Melian]

I had fun reading that detailed crpartoon. Capt. Ed Cooke is a talented guy— who must have also been a helicopter pilot.