Helicopter Aviation Quotes

Flying a helicopter is like flying a magic carpet. It’s the most fun in all aviation.

Concord Academy. Since leaving home, John’s sister had decided that she, too, wished to take to the skies. “People always think of John running up to welcome his father’s helicopter,” Pierre Salinger said. “They forget Caroline was on the White House lawn waiting for Daddy, too.” Moreover, JFK’s campaign plane was named after her—something she took considerable pride in as a little girl. “Caroline had been flying for years before John was even born,” George Plimpton said. “Flying was second nature to her, and it made perfect sense that she’d want to give it a try.” As enthusiastic as John was about aviation, it was their stepbrother who took them up in planes

Such was NDTV’s clout that they even acquired a Helicopter2 to go for coverage, despite objections from the Civil Aviation Ministry.

Another visitor was aviator Tommy Sopwith who flew to Brookfield in his helicopter. Grabbing white sheets from the bedrooms, we laid them out as markers in the field when we hear the choppers engines roar above us. Tommy invited us aboard for a joy ride and suggested playing a surprise visit to some friends only three or four miles away. But a navigational error on Dad's part brought us into a stranger's back garden. An elderly couple having afternoon tea were astonished at the sight of Peter Sellers climbing out of a helicopter on their lawn aking for directions.

It seemed that the naval aviation community hadn’t considered the likelihood of an F-14 engaging a helicopter. Thus, when McElraft radioed confirmation of Broce’s kill, he reported: “Uh, splash one, uhhhh…helicopter!

Ellen Kwame Corkrum is a U.S. military Black Hawk assault helicopter pilot, who previously served as an officer in the United States Army and as a commercial pilot.