Is it, dare I say, happening?
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No military pilot would ever refer to his frame as a "chopper" fyi. It's a helo or a helicopter. "Bird" perhaps. I had a late friend of my dad's who flew one drill this into me when I was young. Lol.
One of those things that really irks me, like news clowns referring to police as "cops" in a formal setting.
"get to the choppa!"
Hollywood is always accurate, isn't it?
I wasn't a helicopter pilot/ warrant officer in the army, just an aircraft structures mechanic but yea I don't think I've ever heard anyone call them choppers, if anyone did I never noticed, but i probably would've remembered though because I'd be thinking "get to the choppa " in my head. We always called helicopters "birds" mostly, I personally didn't really hear helo used as much, I mean I did every now and then but I heard people using the word helo more on the civilian side after I got out from people. So for me at least we mostly said bird, or 60 if it was a Blackhawk, shithook if it was a Chinook, etc. Chopper to me just sounds too tv-ish , sorry, just rambling on and remembering and missing being in lol
I love finding out things like this. I’m an interior designer. A real designer wouldn’t be caught dead referring to a sofa as a couch. This was drilled into my head by the head of our design department over and over. Now the word feels like nail on chalkboards to me when I hear it.
That’s disappointing
Not really. "Helo" sounds so much cooler once you get used to it. "Chopper" sounds childish to me. Infantile, even.