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...news, the helicopter rivals the minicam as the novelty of the moment. Choppers can cost $300,000 or more, but they give some 250 TV station news crews speed and mobility, and serve as remote transmitters for pictures ranging from traffic to catastrophes. But the ratings race can tempt copter reporters to chase sensation, making aerial derring-do part of the story, and to take needless risks...
...band of bobbing heads in a grove of cedars. The men use their craft as an earthbound cowboy uses his horse at roundup time, circling and feinting and cutting off lines of escape. Biggs sets the rotor low and at the mustangs' tails. When they break again, the copter sets down, Crawford leaps out and waves them back on the trail...
...panic, thinking that night will fall before they can be lifted off. "The ice was broke up so bad we couldn't get back to the boats," Don Van Dyke recalls. They stay put, afraid that the thickening weather will keep them from being seen. The big red copter whirls down through the sleet, sending up a cloud of snow as it hovers, barely touching the ice, 30 ft. from the fishing shanty. Chuck and Don and three other fishermen scramble aboard...
...Army Reserve unit, and most of the crew worked 14-hour days over a period of six weeks. Several chose to remain overnight in a cave on the rock face. "There was one guy who was like a human fly," marvels Captain Richard Dominy, the commander of the copter unit. "He liked it so much up there he didn't want to come down...
...Expert William Balles loaded it with C-4 plastiques, 50 gal. of gas, and black powder wrapped in naphthalene-a mix designed to make the explosion as fiery as possible. A special "cable-cutting" charge was planted to send the Huey tumbling at just the right moment. When the copter blew up, on cue this time, the sound was heard 40 miles away. One local radio station called it a sonic boom...