Didier Delsalle Landed His Helicopter On Top Of Mount Everest (Cool Weird Awesome 1242)
Today in 2005, test pilot Didier Delsalle took a helicopter where a helicopter had never gone before: the summit of Mount Everest.
The Mountain Goat Airlift Of 2018 (Cool Weird Awesome 621)
Around this time in 2018 humans started removing mountain goats from Olympic National Park in Washington state. But for a range of reasons, they had to do it by putting the goats in harnesses and flying them out with a helicopter. Plus: around this time in 1997, Elton John improvised a song on a TV show using words from some guy's oven manual.