Posted Feb 29, 2020, 8:20 PM
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Originally Posted by austlar1
Rode in a passenger helicopter from the top of what was then known as the Pan Am Building in NYC in 1968 or 69. The flight went to JFK Airport. It cost about $30 at the time. I rode it at night with a group of friends headed back to Texas. It was pretty thrilling to lift off a fifty story building directly on top of Grand Central Station. We took the chopper mostly as a tourist experience. It was an "A" ticket for sure. Some kind of accident happened up there a few years later, and chopper service was moved over to the East River helipad.
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Wow, what a memory.
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