HELICOPTER JOKE

Scrambling down from the fighter cockpit, Wilson remarked, 'Bang-on – Wizard Show, ND!'

Taking my hand, he led me towards a helicopter, remarking that an interesting fact about helicopters is that there's only one joke about them. 

'Really?' I replied, quite surprised.

'There are variations – usually just a change in the nationality of the pilot – but they're all the same joke.' W said, 'And it's rubbish!'

What is this one joke then?' I asked.

'It's so bad you won't like it – but anyway: There's this helicopter pilot who is very naïve – or in my opinion, criminally stupid – he gets into this helicopter, flies it up to 200 feet, then it suddenly crashes to the ground!'

'Have we reached the funny part yet?' I enquired. W gave me a stern look, and continued.

'An Air Accident Investigator rushes up to the chopper wreck and asks the pilot what went wrong. The pilot replies, "Nothing went wrong – but it was so cold in the cockpit that I just turned the fan off." That's it.'

'That is truly terrible' I replied, 'and it's the ONLY helicopter joke there is?'

'Yes,' W said, 'it is – you can Google it if you don't believe me!'

We had by now reached the steps that lead inside, and W began to ascend them…