* * * * * On the 28th of April 1970, I found myself in Houston, Texas, as a guest of the Houston Police Department. No, dear reader, I wasn’t arrested - shame on you for thinking so little of me. Actually at the callow age of twenty-seven, I had secured the position of Chief Pilot with World Associates Inc. – a Santa Monica, California, based company that designed security systems for banks and police departments. Under the direction of its CEO, Hugh C. MacDonald (retired Chief of Detectives and former head of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Aero Bureau), I had been leased to the Houston Police Department to train sixteen police officers in aerial law enforcement. Therefore in January of 1970, I delivered three Hughes ...