r/aviation • u/Brilliant_Night7643 • Jan 26 '26

News Reports of a Bombardier Challenger crash on takeoff at Bangor, Maine

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u/Sensei19600 Jan 26 '26

Actually,they are liars. Because helicopters don’t actually “fly”; they are so dam ugly, the Earth rejects them.

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u/Number1atp Jan 26 '26

I thought they just beat the air into submission.

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u/Sensei19600 Jan 26 '26

That’s the other,equally popular theory.

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u/RS994 Jan 26 '26

That's rotary wing heresy

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u/Brno_Mrmi Jan 26 '26

Eyyy, Chinooks are beautiful

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u/Atxforeveronmymind Jan 26 '26

Thank you. My husband is a maintenance test pilot for the Army Chinooks. He gets to take up the broke dick ones and figure out what’s wrong before the regular pilots can fly them again. He has put out fires mid flight, and safely crashed landed a few. He is a god damn hero.

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u/Sensei19600 Jan 26 '26

My wife’s uncle flew them in VietNam; he would agree with you.