AIR AMERICA'S BLACK HELICOPTER

摘要

Black helicopters are a favorite fantasy when conspiracy theorists and movie directors conjure a government gone bad, but in fact, the last vehicle a secret organization would choose for a stealthy mission is a helicopter. A helicopter is a one-man band, its turbine exhaust blaring a piercing whine, the fuselage ski's vibration rumbling like a drum, the tail rotor rasping like a buzzsaw. In the last dark nights of the Vietnam War, however, a secret government organization diduse a helicopter for a single, sneaky mission. But it was no ordinary aircraft. The helicopter, a limited-edition model from the Aircraft Division of Hughes Tool Company, was modified to be stealthy. It was called the Quiet One-also known as the Hughes 500P, the "P" standing for Penetrator.