Some 38 years have past since a Vietnam Veteran helicopter instructor explained to his spanking new student aviator, that two inalienable facts should be embraced in order to fly helicopters:
1. You must believe that your number will never come up.
2. You must believe that you will never ride with some poor sole
whose number will come up.
My wife reminds me daily, to smile, because life is to too short and nobody gets out alive in the end. Helicopters have been good to this sole. Their have been good times and heart aches. But when all accounting is complete, it has been and continues to be a GREAT RIDE!
