At 9:27 AM -0500 8/26/03, paulzjoh wrote: >Was it he-lee-O-copter? I remember that back before WW II. They do go up toward the sun (sometimes) after all. And presumably the helio- prefix was a lot better established than the helic- 'spiral' root of helic + o + pter (that was before double helixes, after all). L