I've had Blackhawk pilots tell me that helicopters fly by beating the air into submission, too.
I rotorhead once offered to take me up and teach me the basics. So I busted out my favorite helicopter quote:
I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part. - Lt. Col. John Wittenborn, USAFR
Lots of funny ones here:
http://skygod.com/quotes/flyingjokes.html
Every pilot should have a copies of his books.
I think that line was bastardized from a comment about the A-10 Warthog.
Nope. The A-10 falls under the old adage, "You can make a barn door fly if you hang a big enough engine on it."
Helicopters fly because they're so ugly, the earth repels them.
So that's why they tie down helicopters on the tarmac!