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Old 18th January 2007 | 15:04
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Shawn Coyle
 
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In short - if it doesn't get written up in the English language, it may as well not have happened as far as the aviation world is concerned.
(Note - I'm not on a rant about the US, or England, or Canada being the source of the problem, just that we don't get news from the rest of the world!)
The accomplishments of the Eastern European helicopter industry, let alone the Russian industry were never known, because no-one published anything in English.
The heroism of Russian pilots in Afghanistan has never been properly understood because none of it made it into English.
How many heard of the heroism of Kryztof Rucinski of PZL Swidnik, who drowned while trying to save the life of a Korean pilot after the helicopter had flown into the water? How many of us ever heard of the crash to begin with?
Never made it into any English language publication.

So, if you know of something significant, try to make sure it gets noticed - encourage the people to write something about it - in English!
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