One of the strangest things I've done, or I suppose more accurately have seen, while flying helicopters was an EC225 (one of the two that controlled ditched in the North Sea) floating around on the waves near Fair Isle with a strop round its tail and an offshore support vessel doing its damndest to tow it backwards to dry land. It just seemed totally incongruous to see this thing bobbing around on the ocean completely intact. Made me want to rub my eyes cartoon style to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
Good - rescuing a dog and his owner from a remote Scottish island where the owner had fallen down a hole and broken his leg. The hound was as chilled out as you like in the back of the aircraft
Thanks again for your annual giveaway, Ned. My kitchen would be bare without the HeliOps calendar