I can fully understand the "All Knowing Grin" one can get from such experiences......and please cease your worry....as I have never heard you called a "complete" buffoon. Most folks reckon you have a bit to go yet to earn that title.
Now you have to add some other Icons to your list.....Hughes LOH (think where one of them is....), a Cobra, a Wessex, a Whirlwind, a Skeeter, a Sky Crane.....and of course the Ultimate.....a Chinook.