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Fred,

That's a very good description. Even when looking straight down, you don't feel a real sense of height. I did notice that when we got fairly close, they were careful to have one a few feet higher than the other. Less chance of a rotor hit that way.

I don't have the images at home to post, but Benny was shooting with a home made 8 x 10 aerial camera with a 300mm Nikkor Aerial flat field lens. His assistant was belted in, but the shoulder harnesses on these were on inertial reels, so you could move around a bit.

We basically did circles around the other helicopter and every time we turned south, we'd hit this little pocket where the copter would drop several feet and twist just a bit. The pilot would announce through the headphones - "just a minute here... stabilizing..." After the third or fourth time around I got used to it but the first time sort of took my breath away.