Every day last week at the Avalon Airshow I've been having a quiet smoke round the back of the expo next to a very large wooden box stencilled "Bell 429, This Way UP"........It doesn't take much to amuse me these days.
I could see there was a helicopter in there but it never came out of the box! I did wonder, as the temperature hit 35 on Thursday, whether perhaps they'd brought it over for early does-it-melt-in-a-box trials.
Anybody think of a good reason why you would ship a helicopter 8,000 miles and not at least show it some Australian sunshine? Seems a bit cruel to me.