Posted by Mr. P:

[qutoe]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." [/quote]

My father was a bomber pilot, and later, after the second world war, a "test pilot".

He held chopper pilots in the highest regard.

I don't know how you guys did what you did, but you'll have my ever lasting respect.