The Most Beautiful Thing Ever

(Grantland) wrote:
(Autocollimator) wrote:

That is easy to beat. A Stinson stretcher bearer plane taking a badly wounded
aircrew member who can't be treated at the small hospital on our airbase to a
large hospital in London for care. Just watch the Stinson lift off with one of
your aircrew in the stretcher, clear the pattern and head for London to save
the life of one of our own. That is true beauty.

Yea, really tugs at the heartstrings! Gosh.

I recall landing a Cessna 206 once on a mud strip on the vast
Navajo Indian Reservation (bigger than the state of New Jersey!)
to pick up an almost-dead-beat-to-****-drunken Navajo Indian who
had been rolled the night before.

Throughout the 157 nautical mile flight from Chinle to
Albuquerque, I'll never forget the stench of stale, cheap whiskey
mixed with old, caked-on blood that permeated my cabin.

IIRC, he died on the gurney enroute, but of course for "CYA"
reasons the ACLS nurse declared that he died on the ground while
the paramedics were wheeling him from my airplane to the waiting
ambulance.

It certainly wasn't the patients laying in the stretchers -- it was
the spectacular Rocky mountains and Southwestern U.S. scenery
that tugged at my heartstrings.

Signed,
Still waiting for the hooded coward to take off his "anonomator"
Halloween mask and reveal his real name....