A Joke About A Helicopter Revealed A Past They Never Expected

calmly. “Like you needed someone to do.”

“Get back here. Now.”

“In a minute.”

I pushed the V9 harder. Flew her through a series of maneuvers that would have made her engineers weep—aggressive banks, rapid altitude changes, a textbook demonstration of every edge case their manual override system needed to handle.

She performed flawlessly.

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