After nearly two years of flight school and various other things, I will finally be wining and headed to California to fly AH-1W Cobras.
Unknown "Spoon" Gloomy - 15 years, 10 months, 10 days ago

The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in the delicate balance, the helicopter stops flying immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why, in general, airplane pilots are open, cleareyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooders, introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if anything bad has not happened, it is about to.
--?
Unknown "Spoon" Gloomy - 15 years, 11 months, 26 days ago

"There is no 'I' in team, well there is no 'U' in team either. So if I am not on the team and you aren't on the team then no one is on the goddamn team, the team sucks."
--Tucker
Unknown "Spoon" Gloomy - 16 years, 9 months, 5 days ago

"Leadership isn't about firing bullets and stabbing people; its about telling other people to fire bullets and stab people."
Medical Super-Private First Class Dufrane
Unknown "Spoon" Gloomy - 16 years, 9 months, 5 days ago