[HairOfTheDog]

I hadn't seen it! Thanks for the ping!

Mr. Wrightism:
"Push the stick forward... trees get bigger
Pull the stick back... trees get smaller
Pull the stick back too far... trees get bigger again."

[Ramius]

Yahderhey... some good ones that I hadn't seen before.

The only thing in the world more arrogant than a Naval aviator is a Coast Guard Helicopter pilot. Screwball bunch, those. I remember one that had a thing for chasing eagles around the fjords in Alaska. Total nutball.

I was in an H65A Dolphin with him once. Ordinary flight up to the point where he yells "EAGLE!!" into the david clarks. Immediately begins a nasty upside-down sort of rolling maneuver to get on the six of an otherwise harmless and majestic symbol of America. Poor bastard eagle never had to dogfight a helo before, decided to head for the hard deck and lose the big bad red bird in the tree tops. Didn't work. Pilot was plain crazy. Chased that bird all the way up the fjord, dodging trees and rocks all the way at something less than rotor-width distance from either. My favorite part of any flight with that guy was the landing.