Name dropping!!
I had the honour and pleasure to have dinner with Sergei a couple of nights before his lecture last week - a high point in my career.
We talked of flying boats and helicopters until the cows came home. I didn't have the heart to mention that I was flying an Agusta A109S the next day!
In my defence I had flown an S76 that morning and but an AS355 at the weekend, what a week for a helicopter slut - I'll fly for anyone as long as they pay.
Sergei is a top man and his father was in the stratosphere.
Sometime I pinch myself and say this business is GREAT!
Upland Goose