Fareastdriver,
Very interesting ! All you say confirms my belief the helicopters are fundamentally "Agin' Nature", and I'm very glad that I had nothing to do with them. But, fair's fair, every man to his own taste, funny old world if we were all alike, I suppose.
And had not the whims of the Most High chosen you for this task, we should have lost all those wonderful stories you have written here about your times in the land where all foreigners are considered devils, they have 100-year old eggs, and all the Susie Wongs wear the cheong-sam !