Literary licence. Wilbur Smith had one of his characters standing between the pilots watching Cape Town come into view. All fine and good but they were in an S58T! Painful or what?
Some other silly bu**er, the one that wrote 'Whirlwind', loosely based on Bristow exploits in Iran and whose name escapes me, had his crew chief find a bullet mark on the crankcase of his helicopter. That's fine, but it was a Jetranger! He, the crew chief, then went on to repair a leaking oil pipe with chewing gum. I stopped reading at that point.
Taff