While practicing auto rotations during a military night training exercise a helicopter pilot screwed up the landing and landed on the tail rotor. The landing was so hard that it broke off the tail boom. However, the chopper fortunately remained upright on its skids, sliding down the runway doing 360 degree spins.

As the helicopter slid past the tower, trailing a brilliant shower of sparks, the tower radioed “Sir, do you need any assistance?” The pilot replied, “I don’t know yet Tower, we’re not done crashing!”

Which reminds me, whilst I’m on the subject of helicopters – a 10 strong syndicate of co-workers employed by Bell Helicopters in Roanoke, Texas, are also doing 360 degree spins after taking the $28 MILLION jackpot in last Saturday’s Texas Lotto.

The group of seven men and three women pay 5 bucks apiece into their weekly lottery pool which finally hit pay-dirt after matching the numbers 13 – 36 – 38 – 45 – 46 – 49. After a ding dong celebration at Billy Miner’s Saloon in Fort Worth on Sunday the group threw a “sickie” yesterday and nipped over to Austin, Texas, to claim their prize.

Well you don’t have to either pilot a helicopter or even build a helicopter to win a lottery jackpot, but you do need a lottery ticket and you can get one of those right here at WinTrillions where you can also play the biggest and richest lotteries in the world!

What’s more, why play alone when you can increase your winning chance by joining a lottery syndicate? Lottery syndicates win more jackpots than single players! Why? Because they buy more tickets – buy just ONE ticket and you only have ONE wining chance – now pool your buying power with 9 other players just like the “helicopter 10” – you won’t spend any more on tickets – but now you’ve got TEN winning chances! Pool your buying power with 99 other players – you STILL won’t spend any more on tickets – but now you’ve got ONE HUNDRED winning chances!

Who says that the pumped Powerball lottery doesn’t deliver? Well it’s only just two weeks since the last Powerball jackpot worth $336,400,000 went to a Rhode Island player and now just 14 days later Saturday’s Powerball top prize has delivered SEVENTY MILLION bucks to a New York Lottery player!

So if you haven’t yet checked your Powerball ticket, maybe you should dig it out and take a quick look right away; because if you’ve got the numbers: 6 – 11 – 42 – 53 – 54 and Powerball number 7 lined up across the front and valid for last Saturday’s (Feb. 25) draw then – how can I put this very gently and extremely delicately – YOU’VE SCORED! To be very accurate you’re now SEVENTY MILLION greenbacks ($70,000,000) richer! Now that’s got to come in useful given the way gasoline prices are climbing!

In addition to the jackpot winner – Saturday’s Powerball draw also created 4 new millionaires who matched the 5 main numbers; another 12 players who picked up at least $110,000 apiece by matching 4 mains and the number 7 Powerball and 899 players raked in at least $74,000 by matching 4 mains!

Now if you’re a numerologist, 2012, is of course a leap year! Which means the next Powerball draw will be on Wednesday Feb. 29, known as a leap day! It’s also the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar which leaves us with 306 days remaining until the end of this year. My how time flies! Years containing a leap day are called leap years and with certain exceptions, occur in most years that are evenly divisible by 4, such as 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

What else is significant about Feb. 29? Well it could well be the day that YOUR name goes up in lights in the jackpot winners’ frame – but only if you’ve got a ticket! The place to get that ticket is right here at WinTrillions where you can play the biggest and richest lotteries in the world!  Your name, Feb. 29 and a Powerball jackpot at FORTY MILLION – now that’s a significant match!

Breaking News! Gus the “keep on scratchin’!” wisecracking “spokesgroundhog” for the Pennsylvania Lottery, who’s always looking to get lucky, whilst revelling in his billing as the “second most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania” – the top groundhog spot being held by Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog resident of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and official prognosticator for Groundhog Day which is held on Feb, 2 each year – looks set to be compulsory retired!

Gus is now eleven years old and state lottery officials want to take their advertising campaign in a different direction so they were now ending their long-running Gus the Groundhog ad campaign and March 1 will be his last day with the lottery! – Queue; many sad faces and solemn music!

The Character Shop in Simi Valley, Calif., which created Gus back in 2004, is optimistic that Gus could have a resurgence but it will take a concerted campaign to convince lottery officials and the new ad agency that perhaps they shouldn’t retire their most valuable player!

A spokesperson for Gus says that the second-most-famous groundhog in Pennsylvania will “chill for a bit, take a sabbatical, make some of those doctor and dental appointments he’s been putting off, spend some time with his family, and weigh his options.”

Of course you don’t have to be compulsory retired to play any lottery or to wait until Feb, 2 every year to get positive vibes from either Gus or Punxsutawney Phil. Just click the links right here at WinTrillions to play the world’s biggest and richest lotteries – hit any jackpot and Mar, 1 could well be memorable as your very own “groundhog day!”

Well the excitement builds! Elvis has actually left his job down at the chip shop and is now very definitely IN the building! Powerball Lottery organisers, even as I write, are putting the very best champagne on ice, ordering the tastiest of canapés, hanging bunting on the chandeliers, brushing down the red welcome mat! The reception band’s tuning up their musical instruments, the keys to the very exclusive Multi – Millionaire’s Club are being arranged neatly on the ceremonial red velvet cushion and the paparazzi are buying new batteries to stick into their cameras; all that’s needed at the party is you – so where are you?

If you’ve got a Powerball lottery ticket with the numbers: 1 – 10 – 37 – 52 – 57 and Powerball 11 all neatly lined up across the front, and valid for last night’s draw – then get your coat on a bit sharpish – you’ve SCORED! What’s more you’ve scored big-style to the tune of $336,400,000 that’s THREE HUNDRED and THIRTY-SIX MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND bucks if you want to see it in writing rather than in figures – personally I‘m not at all fussed by how it looks on paper – I’d just prefer it in my bank!

So if you haven’t already checked your Powerball tickets then dig them out from your usual hiding places – if you’ve already checked and the numbers line up, then call Powerball Lottery Headquarters right away – dig out your very best Sunday-go-meeting clothes, prepare to be closely united with your winnings and be ready to party, party, party!

Altogether there were 2,427,244 winning tickets for yesterday’s Powerball draw, including eleven players who matched 5 mains to collect $1,000,000 each and another 108 players who picked up at least $1,000 apiece by matching 4 mains and the number 11 Powerball. Is that double’s all round at your local bar then?

The next Powerball draw is on Wednesday Feb. 15, with a new jackpot starting at $40 million – remember you can play Powerball as well many other of the world’s biggest and richest lotteries from right here at WinTrillions.