Helicopter names

[VeeAny]

JohnR81

I used to call A109 AII I used to fly the DODO

Day On
Day Off

It was so unreliable.

The power on the other hand, was very good and worked almost every time.

[Curtis E Carr]

Try....Souix,Commanche, Cheyenne, Choctaw, Chinook, Osage, Tarhe, Mojave, Apache, and a host of other American Indian Tribal names for US Army helicopters

Following the lead of our American cousins, there was a move by the Brits to name their aircraft after famous Indians.

Hence, the WAH-64 was to be known as the Westland Patel!

[alouette3]

Curtis:

Good One!! LOL.

Alt3

[John R81]

I love that!

[Bell_Flyer]

There was an export variant of the 206L called the Bell Texas Ranger.

[diethelm]

My wife named my 530F.

She called it......

"The god dammed helicopter"

[Ascend Charlie]

I know a man who had a 530N registered VH-FLY. He painted the tail cone blue, and said it went like a blue-arsed fly!

[topendtorque]

My wife used to call them 'tuit'
well she used -quite often- to say that I should have been married tuit.

[2 per rev]

Pilot who operated a 500C for many years took the leap and upgraded to a 500D and got married about the same time.
It was not long before his high maintenance wife was always referred to as the "D model". Cost a lot to run but performance was OK.