Like a Brick From the Sky
February 17th 2007 As I stepped onto the metal bird, the whoop, whoop, whoop of passing rotor blades above my head, I clearly heard an analogy once relayed by my friend Craig Reed, a commercial airline pilot: “If the engines go out on my plane at least I have a fighting change to bring’er down, if the engines go out on a helicopter it drops like a brick from the sky.”
I have been wary of helicopters since
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