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To: Lost1 who wrote (49835)	8/23/2000 12:24:29 PM
From: Sarkie	Respond to of 63513

I remember the very first airplane flight I took. (I am now a gold medallion flyer.) I was in my early 20's and a friend was flying to San Diego from Long Beach to see a mutual client. He had a Cessna twin. He ask me to join him, I reluctantly agreed. When we arrived at his hanger we passed a helicopter and his comment was. "You'll never get me in one of those, God didn't mean for them to fly." You'll never get me in one either. <ggg>

To: Lost1 who wrote (49835)	8/23/2000 2:28:05 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 63513

Our Hawaii helicopter pilot was ex-Nam too -- we took the long version, where you cross the entire Big Island, land at Hilo to refuel, then buzz into the canyons along the Northern shore. And the soundtrack -- no Michael Jackson, we got Ride of the Valkyries to start out (you remember that one -- made more famous as the music in Apocalypse Now that they blared out of the helicopter because "it scares the sh*t out of the natives...."). It took me a week to talk my wife into going on the ride, and she seemed a bit nervous at times <g>, but afterward she thanked me....