Copterland...

Long post mysteriously erased before I could post it... So instead, some quick helicopter porn to start your day. As you can see I'm partial to the Eurocopters, though McDonnell Douglas makes some cool models, and who can forget this amazing Bell 47 whirlibird. Basically the more prehistorically insectoid, the better.

Helicopters are exacly as beautiful and dangerous as they should be. I just wish there were more interesting jobs available on board these mad contraptions for us civilians. I've tried to pilot them but it's too stressful keeping a plastic bubble strapped to a lawnmower afloat. I prefer to DJ, take pictures, wax poetic about arial topography, save damsels in distress, and drop water balloons on surfers. Action, search and rescue fantasies, quasi-military fluorescent uniforms, speeding over mountain and sea, with a bird's eye view of the naked city in between. The physicality of it all. What a rush...