Word: choppering
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...talk with one's neighbor, the compulsion to relive the moment when you were hit, to hear how it was when he was hit. The helicopter pilot tells over and over how the shattered AK-47 slug he is fondling came up through the armored floor of his chopper, ripped through his calf and embedded itself in the dashboard. As do the others, he reconstructs his adventure with the clarity of total recall-the surprise, the pain, the pleasure of having faced death and stared it down...
...Collison and Bill Walker, working off the West Coast, carried 400 Ibs. of equipment to their seagoing photo assignments. Shooting the submersible Deep Quest, Collison surfaced with the craft, clambered into a helicopter to shoot the aerial view, then dived from the chopper to swim back to the mother ship...
...Senator Charles Percy, 48, decided on impulse to take a look at Dak Son, the Montagnard village recently destroyed by the Viet Cong in the war's worst atrocity. The Senator and a party of four hopped to the ground in Dak Son, leaving Loraine Percy in the chopper, and were met by a welcoming barrage of mortar and small-arms fire from surrounding V.C.s. "I can assure you I have never gotten closer to the ground," said Percy, who was pinned down for 15 minutes until four U.S. Army copters whirred in to bail...
...dark and windy. Scuttling northwest from the ancient Buddhist capital of Hue, the two helicopters were above effective small-arms range as they followed the stretch of Vietnamese coast known as "The Street Without Joy." All at once the lead chopper erupted in a burst of fire and smoke, then crashed on its back in a flooded paddyfield, carrying five men to death. Whether the Dong Ha bound Huey was destroyed by Communist gunfire, sabotage or a freak accident may never be known, though Hanoi was quick to crow that its gunners had downed the bird. What was known...
...Hollywood studio use; they are not worth much in the paddies, but they do make good targets: at least eight TV newsmen have been wounded in the past year. Says Dick Rosenbaum, ABC's Saigon bureau chief: "If our crew goes out the right side of a chopper, it may get no action. If the competition goes out the left side and finds action, how do you get over to that side under fire? Sometimes you can best describe getting good combat footage as luck...