{"id":7678,"date":"2009-11-16T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2009-11-16T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T15:48:43","slug":"local-hero-ruedi-hafen-cant-beat-capt-coolest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/16\/local-hero-ruedi-hafen-cant-beat-capt-coolest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Local hero&#8217; Ruedi Hafen can&#8217;t beat &#8216;Capt. Coolest&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2177361&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Helicopters president Ruedi Hafen&#8217;s &#8220;quick-thinking and airmanship&#8221; were the reasons he was a finalist for Aviator of the Year, but he just couldn&#8217;t edge out the compelling story of U. S. Airways pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel really good to be chosen as the only helicopter pilot in the world amongst all those airplane pilots,&#8221; Hafen wrote in an email after the awards banquet in Dubai Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Hafen was one of four finalists for Aviator of the Year, nominated for the delicate manoeuvring of his helicopter during the successful rescue of a man from the frigid water below the Horseshoe Falls in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us who made this happen, we must have done a great job, we have been recognized and we must continue &#8216;what we do safe, do best and do with love,'&#8221; said Hafen, who emphasizes safety during rescues, but also in day-to-day business of shuttling tourists over Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Helicopters president Ruedi Hafen&#8217;s &#8220;quick-thinking and airmanship&#8221; were the reasons he was a finalist for Aviator of the Year, but he just couldn&#8217;t edge out the compelling story of U. S. Airways pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger. &#8220;I feel really good to be chosen as the only helicopter pilot in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[2116,2118,2501,2502,142,1258,1743],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-aviator-of-the-year","tag-chesley-sullenberger","tag-helicopter-pilot","tag-hero","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-niagara-helicopters","tag-ruedi-hafen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7679,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}