When I received my first Stanzel battery-powered, tethered helicopter toy.
– Dan Schwarzbach
In 1971, I was 17 and fascinated with the Bell 206 JetRanger. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey operated two of them. I went to their rooftop helipad in Manhattan to photograph them, and Philip J. Landi, who was in charge of the aviation unit, took me on my first flight. That wonderful day, I used three rolls of film on what has become my favorite subject throughout my life. I fondly remember Landi for being instrumental in steering me on the path to becoming a proud rotorhead.
– Vern Curtis Anderson
In 1962, when I was in second grade and my dad was a career US Marine stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Quantico (Virginia), he took me to work. I got to go aboard Marine One and sit in the pilot’s lap!