Collective Noun

[Dantruck]

Gentlemen...and Ladies here present

Your suggestions please for the correct collective noun for a group of helicopters?

Gaggle?...Swarm?...Whoop?

I'll give you mine later. For now, your best, por favor.

Dan

[Freddie838]

A Throb of Helicopters

[PT6ER]

A "fatigue" of helicopters??

[WASALOADIE]

A Vortex

a Collective

[TRC]

A clatter.

[Rigga]

A Worry of whirlythings

[krypton_john]

A sucking financial vortex.

[firebird_uk]

A thrum, perhaps.

[Bertie Thruster]

A mash of choppers.

[Dantruck]

Very good so far, very good.

Forgot to say there's a bottle of cheap Rioja in it for the best suggestion (just for fun, Mr Mod).

Hope that'll fire up the Antipodean mob in a few hours, in any case. They can't get good wine down there, I hear :E

Dan
(Sitting here on the Med, bored and drinking cheap Rioja while it blows a 50kt gale outside. Bloomin' pool chairs are already in the pool. Thinking the BBQ will go next!) 21:57 UTC

[goudie]

A hover of helicopters. Don't repeat it too quickly!

[HelipadR22]

Judging by the rivalry of the differing factions on here I think it should be...

A Clique of Helicopters

:p

[topendtorque]

a small gathering would be - 'a mob',

a large gathering would be - 'a big mob'

a medium gathering would be - 'might be a fair size mob?'

anyone that has worked with aboriginals in stock camps will recognise that. note the question mark.

as far as wine down under, - 'there's a proper big mob of that, good stuff too!'

and we're always willing to experiment.

tet

[heliwanab]

a rapidly increasing overdraft facility?
bit of a mouthfull granted:rolleyes:

[birrddog]

For the noise abatement crow....

A flock of helicopters....


As in, there goes another flocking helicopter!

[tcufroggie]

Down here in Texas, I guess we could just call them a s$itload of helicopters. (since that is a standard form of measurement in the Lone Star state!!):ok:

[griffothefog]

A " bunch of knobs" comes to mind ... :E

[bigglesbutler]

More than one is normally a "Headache", especially when the blasted things won't work properly.

Si

[Epiphany]

A 'Scrotum' obviously.

[Pandalet]

Assuming the helicopters include helicopter pilots, an argument of helicopters seems appropriate...

[Savoia]

.
Given his former service in the Royal Regiment of Artillery (originally inspired by his love of the Cavalry) my godfather always applied equestrian terms to his aircraft, in addition to their female gender of course!

Following this trend the collective noun for horses would be:

Troop (military), team (agricultural), herd (wild), harras (hunting), stable (racing), breed (stud farm).

At garden parties my godfather would sometimes announce the arrival of friends flying in company as "the approach of the heavenly host"!

Sav

[Up North]

A Balancing Act.

[lelebebbel]

As if the english language needs any more collective nouns... have a look at this list:

Collective Nouns (http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm)

surprising actually that helicopters aren't already in there.

[Deemar]

Well given that the list of collective nouns states that it is a "wing of aircraft", then presumably it is a "rotor of helicopters".

I still think my favourite collective noun is that used for a group of bankers - a wunch of bankers.

[topendtorque]

some development of the Pandalet theme might be a good idea.

I was in the VRD 'wing' for a while, or so the engraving on my personal shooter of the 12 gauge variety said.

as far as cheap plonk goes I do hope it is not this "stuff" that you have in mind. Posted on our ABC not long ago. jacob's creek we reckon may not be a stirling drop, but when in a jam no matter whether its been bolied, frozen, bounced around over a rough road or a vibrating rotary device, one can still drink it.

Typo gives away fake Aussie wine


Posted 1 hour 53 minutes ago
Fake bottles of Australia's best-selling Jacob's Creek wine have flooded the UK market, but were discovered because of a typo on the label.
Hundreds of bottles of imitation Jacob's Creek, which have made their way into bottle shops across the country, have already been seized.
The wine appears identical to the real thing apart from a tell-tale misspelling of Australia on the label - and the apparently horrible taste.
The fakes are believed to have come from China.
Trading standards officials are warning consumers to look for the label error when buying a bottle of one of the UK's favourite wines.

Pernod Ricard United Kingdom, owner of Jacob's Creek, has launched an investigation.

[Planemike]

I will offer either either a "lift of helicopters" or a "buzz of helicopters"........!!!

Planemike

[Pandalet]

*ROFL* about the fake Jacob's Crack over here being discovered because of the "horrible taste"! How would you tell?

I always thought the stuff was so plentiful in the UK because nobody in the Antipodes would drink the stuff, so they had to export it all.

[Thomas coupling]

Since there's a bottle of vino going:
a WHINE OF HELICOPTERS.:uhoh:

And since this is a "collective" noun thang.....

Let's make this competition: cyclical :ugh:

Yaw all know what I mean..............:eek:

[Sudden Stop]

At our place it's usually an Invasion of helicopters. :sad:

[Rotorgoat8]

How 'bout; ROTORFLOCK? My first thought was CLUSTERFLOCK but figured I'd better keep it clean!