Heavens above - please don't start another muck-chucking string that pits the yank-tanks against the euro-trash. Cripes! I'm doin' it myself and I didn't realise it!
The reality is that there will be one opinion for every helicopter pilot about who makes the best choppers (except when we include doctors and lawyers who are helicopter pilots then we apply correction factors of x5 and x6 respectively.
From where I sit you don't have to be an Archbishop to realise that a spare donkey is a very useful thing. There are a few students of GoM accident stats who since 03 have concluded that a it might be a good thing down there too!!
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