On: The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airline...

[lvspiff]

Even ground based large passenger non-winged transports are a bad idea if someone is shooting at them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_railway_station_att...

overall i prefer any mode of transport that is not being shot at

[medo-bear → lvspiff]

What do you know, even sea based large passenger transport is a bad idea if someone is shooting at them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania

Funny anecdote, my first air travel was in an Mi-8 as a 6 year old being airlifted out of a war zone

[jprd → medo-bear]

I'm not sure a lot of us would find that "funny", but is pretty great that you are in a place now where _you_ can find it so.

[medo-bear → jprd]

Took almost 30 years to find the dehumanizing idioticity of that war as funny, but I got there.