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What Rutan Did

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Ah, Peter Garrison, not only a great aviation writer, but a great writer, period.

I still remember his article about the original BD-5, and about his self-mantra ("RPM, RPM, RPM") and death grip on the collective during his first flights as he got his helicopter rating.

He is the kind of a guy who, in an article about flying gyrocopters at El Mirage dry lake, could turn it into poetry and write, "Only the soul survives loss of rotor at altitude."

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