Electric Helicopter anyone?

[hyperD]

My past experience with helicopters wasn't a happy blending of man and machine (pardon the pun). I'll stick with fixed wing. Or maybe a gyrocopter.

Can't argue with that!

[Churchill]

My past experience with helicopters wasn't a happy blending of man and machine (pardon the pun). I'll stick with fixed wing. Or maybe a gyrocopter.

Put the thing in trim and it'll fly itself...

[Cliphead]

Put the thing in trim and it'll fly itself...

Exactly

[Spacecadet]

Far too many "Jesus" bolts in helicopters.

After all, you've never seen a rotary winged bird, now have you?

not a bird, no

[Wodewick]

Far too many "Jesus" bolts in helicopters.

After all, you've never seen a rotary winged bird, now have you?

Although I've never seen a fixed wing bird either come to that!

[Wodewick]

Though it rarely gets out of ground effect.

I am no ornithologist but I am fairly certain that an albatros can and does flap its wings.... therefore it cannot be called fixed wing (although it/they do glide quite a lot)