Cougar 52 on approach to the Henry Goodrich

January 10-13: No airplane building work this week, but some very cool flying. We traveled to St. John’s, Newfoundland (that’s in Canada, for all you geography majors) to fly with a helicopter company providing support to oil rigs on the Grand Banks. It was quite an eye-opening experience…the company’s crews routinely land their heavy twin-engine Super Puma helos, stuffed with people and equipment, on pitching oil rig helidecks, at night, in the weather, with winds approaching 60 kts.