The fwap fwap fwap of helicopters always reminds me of my favorite movie, "Apocalypse Now." The association is ripe here at my home in Manila, where military choppers often pass overhead on their way to a nearby Philippine air force base.
When Francis Ford Coppola came to the Philippines to film his Vietnam epic in 1976, Ferdinand Marcos, the country's dictator, agreed to let him hire elements of the Philippine armed forces for the film. The Huey helicopters he borrowed were key, since they were the same Bell UH-1 Iroquois model used by U.S. forces in Vietnam.
