Yet, always, not far from my mind, is the chance that the big fan out
front might stop turning, and I'm always mindful of the location of
flat fields, wind and furrow direction...


The mention of fields and and furrows reminds me of the story from when
I was learning to fly at the University of Illinois, one of the Beech
Sports had an engine failure and they put it into a corn field in late
summer, and even though they walked away, the airframe was pretty much
beat to s__t by all the nice big ears of corn!
Note to self: don't put it into a corn field in late summer if I have a
choice!

Ryan

Jay-I was also looking at your video site last night and the zero G dog
video had me laughing so hard I had tears...!
I'm trying to get one of my colleagues to send you some UW MedFlight
helicopter video (from landing at scenes) he has put together.
(fortunately no crashes, so not as dramatic as some of the helo ops
video you have).