Brad wrote:
Yesterday evening the TV news was all a twitter about a Homebuilt
Helicopter that crashed, ............


Yeah, same old. One local "reporter" on the scene of a light plane
mid-air assured us that the FAA was on the scene and was looking for the
"black boxes". Fortunately, the anchor at the studio was a pilot and
ever so gently corrected her. Dunno about you but I prefer that
reporters report the news and not make it up.

More recently, The local news (Boston MA USA) reported a noise complaint
from an acro plane (in a designated acro box, BTW) but, according to the
reporter, the FAA couldn't follow up because they couldn't read the
plane's "end" number.

Tony V.