Have you ever been at the beach and seen a Coast Guard helicopter doing Coast Guard helicopter things?

Like at the beach or at the seaside? My dad, God bless him, he's like a savant when it comes to identifying planes and helicopters.

In every other way, my dad seems like a normal man, but you'll be talking to him,

and there's some tiny fly speck on the horizon that you can't even hear and you can barely

see, and he'll whip around and say, oh, a DC-7. I think that was built in 1978.

Or he'll be like, oh, I didn't realize that Satopria was still flying out of that airfield.

I haven't seen that there in a few years.

Like, Dad, how do you know this stuff?

I've always been very impressed with my dad that he could do that and a little embarrassed that I can't.

But when it comes to Coast Guard helicopters specifically, at least those, I can usually say, hey, that's one from the Coast Guard.

It's because they're usually painted in very bright, distinctive, like orange and orange and white.

But also, unless you're around a bunch of other military aircraft for some reason, they are usually bigger and way more serious looking than anything else that might be flying around, like than any news helicopter or tourist sightseeing helicopter, anything like that.

They're really recognizable. The most recognizable helicopter that you see for things like

Coast Guard Search and Rescue and Coast Guard law enforcement missions is this one you see here,

the CH65 dolphin. And that one, once I point this out, every time you see when you'll know

exactly what it is, because it's not only got the normal helicopter rotor on top, it's also got

this distinctive vertical tail rotor as well, it's also got this distinctive

vertical tail rotor as well, that circular tail rotor. It's unmistakable. It's a really big

aircraft, and ones like this, they really stand out. But did you know, if you need to, you can

stuff one of those huge orange Coast Guard helicopters inside another aircraft.

You can take that helicopter and put it inside another aircraft.

It's like a turduckin.

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