The other day, I was at an airshow at Luke AFB and there was a CV-22 Osprey on display, and the pilot was talking about helicopters and how much more difficult they are to fly than regular planes. I remembered the signature someone uses on his posts here (“Helicopters don’t fly; they beat the air into submission”) and just as I was about to mention it, the Osprey pilot said essentially the same thing! So I wonder: Who originally came up with that line? Maybe the person whose signature that is (sorry I can’t remember who; it’s too close to bedtime![zzz]) can tell us. Thank you in advance.
That line has been around for decades. No telling where it came from.
I agree with subfixer - I first heard that probably 40 years ago - along with
“Helicopters don’t fly - they’re so ugly the earth rejects them”
or
“Helicopters don’t fly - they use a crude form of levitation”
after fifteen years working rotary, I like “ten thousands pieces flying in close formation”
I went through Army flight school in '66 and first heard the saying back then.
Jim
Pretty sure it was a fixed-wing pilot that said it…