chopper pilots
Rotorcraft cockpit crew
Chopper pilots are helicopter pilots.
The term appears most often in military and aviation contexts, where chopper is informal slang for helicopter: The chopper pilots flew supply runs into the combat zone.
The phrase emphasizes the hands-on, often dangerous nature of rotary-wing aviation.
- rotorSpinning mechanical assembly
- tail rotorRear-mounted stabilizing propeller
- cockpitPilot's control compartment
- aviatorOne who pilots aircraft
- flight schoolPilot training institution
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