This document is a brief summary of selected parts of the two Danish reports: “Aldring, demens og bilkørsel” (Siren & Meng, 2010) and “Helbredsmæssig kontrol ved ældre bilisters kørekortsfornyelse – Evaluering af de sikkerhedsmæssige effekter af demenstesten” (Siren & Meng, 2010), from DTU Transport, Denmark. (An article on the results of the empirical part of the latter report is forth coming ...

Thirty-six years ago, I was the first Cobra Pilot to shake the hand of a surviving Cobra Pilot who lost his tail rotor assembly while on a Hunter-Killer mission in South Vietnam. It was a hot, humid day at Quan Loi. I was an in-country trained Cobra maintenance officer for A Troop 3/ 17 Air Cav and Operation Lam Son 719 had been underway for weeks. The siren went off, which meant one of our Hel...