Today I got to examine a remarkable piece of machinery up close. At a quiet air strip in Tofino BC, a Sikorsky Skycrane sat waiting for a pilot. A mechanic had just finished doing maintenance on the rotors when we arrived. He answered our questions as we gazed in marvel at this truly awesome feat in human engineering. The machine we examined had been constructed in 1967, but of course machines like this are consistently rebuilt, so it looked brand new.

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