Helicopters are the hummingbirds of the aircraft world! This thought came to me unbidden while scrolling through photos of last year's Thunder Over Louisville. I know I posted a photo of this same helicopter yesterday but when I saw the photos from 
Helicopters are fascinating pieces of machinery (at least to me, I have way too many photos of them, especially this particular one). Did you know that even without a working engine they can still land safely? It's called autorotation, within a certain envelope the upward movement of air will turn the rotors and generate enough lift to safely land the aircraft. Or that without a tail rotor the helicopter would rotate in the opposite direction as the main rotor?
For a variety of reasons I have a lot of photos of the police department chopper. In the one above it is lifting a diver out of the water with its skid during a demonstration at Thunder. The photo below is from a minute or so later, after the pilot got done playing with the diver and started climbing up from between the bridges.
Anyways, that's enough helicopters out of me. Is that anything that any of you reading this end up taking photos of every time you see one?
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