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It is an unmistakable sound that grows louder and even violent as it flies closer—the whirling roter blades of a $25 million Augusta helicopter landing on a Sao Paulo office tower heliport never gets old to a Sao Paulo visitor. Sure New York City has helicopters but not like this. In Sao Paulo helicopters are everywhere. You often cannot see them as they approach yet they announce their arrival by their powerful sound. You may steal a glimpse as they approach the heliport, coming closer and closer and then you lose sight of them as they are suddenly swallowed atop the building as their engines roar and then go eerily quiet during a landing. Moments later as they take off the sound gets louder and louder again as they take off and quickly disappear among the clouds and towers of Sao Paulo. Like the trumpet of an elephant in the wild the whoosh of the mighty engines is perhaps the loudest sound in the Brazilian urban jungle. A visitor to Sao Paulo will be amazed by the sheer number of towers—then amazed again at how many heliports are found on the tops of the towers like nests in trees left by the birds. Though the sight and sounds of the daily helicopter parade through the skies of Sao Paulo are distinct the Paulistas rarely look up. The sight and sounds of an expensive helicopter dropping off a celebrity or a businessman has become just another daily routine ignored by most in the Brazilian urban landscape. However, as the large numbers of helicopter’s seen on a typical day in Sao Paulo makes clear somehow helicopters have managed to fly their way into the Brazilian culture like no other place on earth. Since the commute was invented it was inseparable from the car. Just the idea that one’s daily routine involves dropping in and out of the sky hoping from tower to tower has got to mean that something very different is going on here. In Brazil, taking to the skies via helicopter is both a status symbol and a necessity to those fortunate Brazilians who can afford their daily commute by helicopter. It is a useful tool for those who need to maintain tight business schedules. A helicopter commute is often only minutes compared to the hours spent by the millions below snarled in Sao Paulo’s choked arteries. However, the helicopter has become just as much a tool of luxury lifestyles for Brazil’s weekend commute to the family beach house or mountain retreat.