I am laughing soo hard I am crying...
Yeah, we got a real good laugh about it too, in the ready room.
The neat thing was that the safety magazine, “Approach” was so well written that you had to guard your copy to keep someone from swiping it. The editors & writers were the gourmet chefs of safety education.
On another note, I was flying the CH-53 Sikorsky Sea Stallion at the time. One night flight just after takeoff we heard a loud “BOOM”. We returned to base, landed and did a walk-around, looking for damage.
The other pilot called to me from the nose of the aircraft, “I think I’ve found the problem!”
There, dead center on the avionics hatch at the nose of the helo was plastered a seagull. No damage to the aircraft, but the 130 knot encounter ruined the seagull’s evening. It kinda got our attention, too.
:-)