Biggest & Most Powerful 'Chopper'
Did we really ever use the word ‘chopper’ freely in the eastern hemisphere to describe a rotary wing aircraft? My problem with the word is that I can’t say it, in the aviation context, without breaking into a grin.
Twenty plus years ago I might have used the word as a ‘double-entendre’ to try and make the odd female heli pilot blush but there are so many of them now that it is no longer any fun AND I am supposed to be PC.
Had a T-shirt once with a slogan acknowledging that our organisation had just taken delivery of Bell 214’s which, as most of you know, was a mighty strong and powerful chopper of the Nineteen Seventies, even by American standards!