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I realize that helicopters have a lot of flight freedom, but it is
still shocking to see one flying directly towards oneself like this.

Why? It is always flying towards somebody.

But not at eye level, which it almost was just a few seconds before
that photo was taken. It was climbing rapidly when I took that shot.

Anyway, if that helicopter is
only 50-70 feet up it is an RC model. I know that you insist that you
were
there and know better, but what did you do, use a tape measure? How
the heck
do you know that it was only 50-70 feet up?

I know it wasn't 1000 feet up, as someone suggested. I might accept 200
feet feet, as an outside stretch. 100 feet does not look like an
unreasonable estimate.

That's home to first base. The downwash would damn near flatten people.

Hell man, the rotors are 26-32 feet in diameter (MD500).

Get a set of dividers and measure the diameter of the rotor and then
translates that to vertical distance.

It's probably 500 UP and 100-1500 yards AWAY.