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QI - flight of the navigator
Mu Beta Posted Sep 11, 2008
Probably not in the sense you're thinking, no.
Let's think a bit more QI and a bit less scientifically about this situation, shall we?
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minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! Posted Sep 11, 2008
planes have to fly over tall buildings, helicopters can fly inbetween them. is that it?
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sidneylopsides Posted Sep 11, 2008
Those white marker things at the end of a runway?
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sidneylopsides Posted Sep 11, 2008
I didn't see that runways answer, not just copying! Didn't realise that there were pages on this place, very odd forum layout to me.
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Icy North Posted Sep 11, 2008
Hi Sidney, and welcome to h2g2. 
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minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! Posted Sep 11, 2008
my answer was not rediculous, helicopters (little ones anyway) can fly inbetween tall buildings if theres enought room.
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Godless-Years Posted Sep 11, 2008
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The best kind 
I was going to say the ocean. Would you fly over the ocean in a helicopter? Although planes need not fly over oceans.
Planes must get a powerful thrust to lift off?
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Sep 11, 2008
So can small planes. Remember Matthias Rust who landed his plane in the red square in Moskow?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2002/oct/27/features.magazine137
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Icy North Posted Sep 11, 2008
Is this something to do with the effect of the helicopter, rather than the effect on it?
I live on a Chinnook flight-path and it shakes the house to its foundations when they go over. Maybe there's somewhere on Earth which is critically susceptible to these vibrations, where it's banned? Avalanche areas, possibly?
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Whisky Posted Sep 11, 2008
Yup, but that wouldn't fulfill the "you _must_ take a plane over" bit...
Still not sure whether that means "The only way to get over it is with a plane" or "if you have a plane it _must_ go over this...
Hmmm...
Just a thought... Everest?
(Which would be wrong by the way, they've developed a helicopter that can reach 30,000 feet)
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Mu Beta Posted Sep 11, 2008
I like Icy North's thinking.
He's not right, mind you, but I like his thinking.
I repeat that I am looking for one specific place.
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Sep 11, 2008
We have a saying hre: 'Neapel seh'n und sterben' (See Naples and die), so I'd be inclined to suggest Naples if hootoo was Germany-based. 
Why you'd have to go there by plane and not by helcopter however, is beyond me. 
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minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! Posted Sep 11, 2008
i live in a "no flying zone" and helicopters are allowed but no planes, is it something similar to that?
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Mu Beta Posted Sep 11, 2008
A slightly desperate attempt to be interesting there, Bel, I think. 
No, mcm, not along those lines....
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Mu Beta Posted Sep 11, 2008
No, but I like your thinking.
I'm pleased with this question - we'll leave it open awhile.
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Icy North Posted Sep 11, 2008
OK, how about a certain remote part of the Amazon rainforest, where they recently ran into a tribe who had had no contact with the outside world. Maybe someone's decided that a helicopter is too intrusive - the indians were pictured firing their bows and arrows at it - but they have probably become conditioned to planes.
Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article4032444.ece
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