My wife Susan bought me a helicopter tour of the city for my birthday.
This past Sunday we took the helicopter tour. What a great experience that was, worth every penny. The Raven 1 helicopter was a four-person chopper about the size of a 1964 Volkswagen beetle. We got a tour of the Helicraft hangar, a briefing on the helicopter business (their bread-and-butter these days is the natural resources sector, flying personnel and doing airborne high-tech prospecting, not city tours).
The company also runs a flight school, and I noticed that they had a showcase with heli-swag, including a $5 keychain with a embroidered fabric tag with the Helicraft name and web address on one side, and an official looking "Remove before flight" warning on the other. I had to have it.
Riding a scooter gives me a feeling of flight, and it's essential to remove the Griplock before taking off on the Vespa... so now you see how my mind quickly knitted these things together, I hope.
With a little trip to the hardware store, a little drilling and Dremelling and fiddling, and ta-dah!
I have a cool Griplock with a remove-before-flight aircraft-like warning permanently attached. Here's a tour of the cockpit.
Right up my alley.
3 comments:
The helicopter doesn't look like it could accommodate four people...
The warning sign before take off is very appropriate for the Vespa.
Good job tying those two together. A helicopter ride would be awesome.
Oh, and happy birthday.
Very Cool. Happy (belated) Birthday!
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