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Sentence Examples In the past, the ministry had 3 patrol vessels, one fixed-wing plane and a helicopter to perform the above-mentioned functions. The wind picked up suddenly and the familiar beat of a helicopter assaulted her ears. At the top of the mountain, anti-cloning extremists assassinate him, and everyone else on board the helicopter, too. The fire then merged with another started by a lost hiker signaling a helicopter. The door closes and the helicopter immediately ascends vertically to 1000 feet. Smoke was seen rising from the wreckage of the Black Hawk helicopter, and other US choppers were seen hovering nearby. Except this time, the bug was a large helicopter gunship and the car was a speeding diesel locomotive. The helicopter rises up over the ridge line, the noise of the rotors scattering the targets below. The shot was from a news helicopter and Cecil could hear the thudding of the helicopter rotors in the background as the reporter began to speak. I could hear the thwapping of helicopter rotors, the grinding of tank treads, the sound of RPG's and bazookas. Paramilitary forces attacked the village with helicopter gunships and armored cars. The Bedford, a NATO battleship armed to the teeth, is on patrol in the North Atlantic when it receives two guests via helicopter. I know that some people may find it hard to understand, but in my mind if you haven't been in a helicopter you haven't lived. In a medical evacuation role the helicopter can carry three medical crew and six litters or stretcher patients. He said helicopter gunships rocketed rebel positions in the jungle where the gunmen fled. He has only just alighted from the aircraft at Beira when he narrows in on a white helicopter parked on the runway apron. A police helicopter also circled the site, sending images of the inferno down to fire crews to help them tackle the blaze. At one point, a police helicopter reported a riot, seeing men unfurling a banner across the prison roof and smoke billowing from the yard. It was established that the East London crew was the closest helicopter team capable of landing on the rig. Having lost his sail and rig, he was found curled around a buoy clinging to his board by a coastguard rescue helicopter from Lee-on-the-Solent. Show More Sentences A Royal Navy helicopter from HMS Seahawk has rescued five people who had been drifting in a life raft off the coast of Britain for a week. Villagers also enjoyed spectacular helicopter rides as well as listening to sound advice from Bromley police and firefighters. Private First Class Nicholas Greer first rode in a helicopter when he was only two years old. Humber Coastguard scrambled a rescue helicopter to the scene and requested the launch of the Humber lifeboat. The pilot, a lieutenant commander, banked the helicopter to the left and aimed towards the contact. Part of the reason for the cancellation was that the cost of a helicopter had climbed from 12 million a piece to 59 million. A Royal Navy Lynx helicopter operating from HMS Endurance has crashed in the Antarctic, injuring the flight crew of five. The radio-controlled toy helicopter buzzes annoyingly, like a huge mosquito, around a figure attempting to sleep. Stone did as instructed and angled the helicopter toward the aircraft's last known location. The men were winched to safety and became the first people rescued by helicopter off the coast of Ireland. One member of the crew was rescued by a US Navy helicopter, and did not suffer serious injury. About nine years ago, I visited that particular volcano, actually flew on a helicopter right to that lava dome at the center of that crater. The helicopter can be fitted with gun pods, rocket launchers and air-to-air missiles attached to two removable weapons sponsons. I first noticed something was amiss by the helicopter circling over the Arakawa at about 8pm on Thursday evening. So if he has a job in Naas, he hops in the helicopter and flies there from Galway. But a local resident has complained to the council about Mr Kearney's use of his home for taking off and landing his helicopter. The purpose of the session was to educate ground crews on the proper procedure for landing a helicopter. He said police in a helicopter landed on their farm shortly before 5am with a search warrant. The presidential helicopter, Marine One, is now landing on the South Lawn at the White House. The equipment should be exploited to reduce maintenance time and improve the overall reliability of the helicopter fleet. Show More Sentences French security sources said that advanced plans had been laid to use a stolen truck or a helicopter loaded with explosives. We radio-tracked geese several times each summer from 1997 to 2001, using two four-element Yagi antennas fixed on each side of a helicopter. The government said it had advised her against returning to the zone and refused her request for transport in a military helicopter. The helicopter which the service hopes to acquire has bigger fuel tanks and can fly for longer without refuelling. The police and the fire departments rushed to the scene but they could not find any helicopter wreckage. The helicopter systems and components have redundancy, the duplicated systems being installed on opposite sides of the fuselage. As a police helicopter thundered overhead, many of the demonstrators sounded klaxons and blew horns to make their point. Tomorrow, the team will be dropped by helicopter into the jungle and must trek to their base at the foot of a volcano. American soldiers are now rarely seen outside their vehicles without helicopter and tank support. Significantly, the last four minutes and 33 seconds of the chase were recorded on video tape from a police helicopter overhead. Police scrambled the force helicopter and even took the unusual step of staging a reconstruction of his last known movements. But then again, he did leave the helicopter with alacrity when we landed and the door was finally slid open. The airport is likely to be the base, for three years at least, for a new air-sea rescue helicopter for the North West. Coastguards called off the search involving a police helicopter and the air-sea rescue helicopter from a nearby airbase. On Thursday, three fishermen had to be rescued by an air-sea rescue helicopter as a rising tide left them cut off from the mainland. A helicopter rotor operates in several different states and speeds, and therefore might by the most complicated airscrew of all. During the recce, the helicopter would land on one of the islands used in aircraft bombing missions. The damaged aircraft was itself airlifted out of the valley by a giant Chinook military helicopter on Wednesday. The Army authorities also used a helicopter and airdropped around 8,000 food packets to marooned villagers. Finally he blessed crowds and after a lingering wave reboarded the Papal helicopter to head for Edinburgh. Show More Sentences Instead, an RAF rescue helicopter was scrambled from Chivenor in Devon and she was winched up from the beach and flown to Withybush hospital. Two Britons were forced to take to a liferaft after their helicopter went down in the sea between Chile and north-west Antarctica. Comfortingly, as I type this, I can feel the whump of a helicopter circling overhead. The list of private helicopter owners reads like a who's who of the country's richest businessmen. Now air ambulance bosses intend to name the new helicopter after their generous benefactor. Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast. They then went on to ransack a hangar belonging to the property, which houses an aeroplane, helicopter and car. The Black Hawk is the primary helicopter for air assault, general support and aeromedical evacuation units. The helicopter can be fitted with an aeromedical interior and Telemedicine data link for the air ambulance role. The helicopter also did a few daring aerobatics, including flying sideways and in reverse, before returning to base. A helicopter was dispatched to carry out an aerial assessment of the rural situation. After a six-hour standoff, Spanish special forces rappelled from a helicopter onto the moving deck while snipers stood by. The helicopter was airborne for only a minute when it started plunging toward the river. The helicopter had only one rear wheel set and the lip of the ramp touching the ridge. The helicopter wheeled away, dragging a Kendal mountain rescuer, who was still dangling from its cable, with it. Shields took co-pilot, and once he strapped in, Mitchell pulled back on the joystick, lifting the helicopter off the ground. The report says that as the aging helicopter lifted off the deck of HMCS Iroquois, the pilot gave the aircraft too much power. He shouted over the rotor noises of the helicopter as it lifted off from the site. Restrictions on light aircraft and helicopter flights were lifted overnight. She was discovered by two men, who moved her on a sofa to higher ground, where she waited for a helicopter to lift her to hospital. Show More Sentences An RAF helicopter assisted the rescue, lifting both the climbers and team members to the bottom of the valley. It became so large that the aquarium arranged for it to be lifted by helicopter to the ocean. By the time a rescue helicopter lifted Don from the glacier, another storm threatened. She was air lifted by helicopter to Airedale General Hospital at Steeton with non-life-threatening injuries. The large polar tents and camping gear would remain at the Lake Victoria campsite and be lifted out by helicopter later that season. He and a local fire fighter were lifted by helicopter from an area on the front line when air crew lost sight of the men through the smoke. Five men were injured and were lifted by medevac helicopter to another base. Among these were 2,132 people in isolated villages who were lifted out by helicopter. Everything, every single nut, bolt, screw, girder, steel cable, had to be lifted to those heights by helicopter, and winched down. The group's handful of foreign staff, who were not hurt, were waiting for an American helicopter to lift them from the compound. Mrs Cook added that horses have acute hearing and can often hear a helicopter, and sense a disturbance in the air, from miles away. They were supplied with weapons and air support from helicopter gunships and Antonov bombers. On the first lift, the I-beam, though still on the deck, had kept moving below the helicopter, jinking to the left and right, forward and back. The ideal jetliner, the ideal helicopter, the ideal fighter shapes have already been discovered, given what we know. The end was sad, the wasted figure in a wheelchair being lifted into a helicopter sketching a parody of the brave gestures of old. Get that helicopter pilot on the horn, ASAP, tell him I'll be needing some things from home! Developed in Holland it is driven by a helicopter, Rolls Royce jet engine equipped with an afterburner. It is difficult to get food to Seliyarovo because the 420-person village is only accessible by car or helicopter. In the meantime, there were repeated air strikes on the city from US warplanes and helicopter gunships. The warplanes and helicopter gunships were ready, their crews primed to deliver precision strikes. Show More Sentences With the helicopter hovering above, Peter on his motorbike, faithful dog Skip and a couple of would-be jackeroos, the sheep were caught. They responded on Saturday, flying a journalist to the rock by helicopter, ripping down the Hellenic stripes and running up the star and crescent. A Royal Navy Pilot sits inside a Lynx helicopter at RAF Odiham air base today ahead of a rehearsal for a Diamond Jubilee flypast. In an effort to save his doomed mission, he hopped on a helicopter from Amman to Ramallah. The fourth in line to the British throne spent more than three years serving as an apache helicopter pilot. They were found camped in the woods, armed with binoculars, flying a small helicopter. You get a nice mansion with backyard, a bowling alley, a chef, your own helicopter, and an impressive pile of nuclear weapons. Seventeen-year-old Jack Kirkby has just returned from a trip to New Zealand, where he has been skiing, taking helicopter rides and even abseiling. The book casts a jaundiced eye on everything from helicopter rescues and large, boisterous groups to the use of cell phones, to which Guy had a particularly strong aversion. As we weaved through the screen of helicopter gunships on our final approach, I turned to Adrian, smiling the smile of a very happy man, and couldn't believe what I saw. You can take a fifteen minute dash by helicopter for an overall impression of the island before the machine lands for a closer look at the volcanic activity. A second helicopter was dispatched to lift him seven hours later. The exciting discovery was apparently made when researchers were forced to break open the leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to lift it by helicopter. In the case of the Comanche, it turned out that even the Army did not want a radar-stealthy helicopter. Other acts have included a helicopter dangling a cheeseburger in front of him, people whacking him with golf balls and drunken revelers pelting him with eggs. When intelligence discovered the time and place of a meeting of his lieutenants, a plan was devised to take them by surprise with helicopter rangers aided by ground troops. A number of exercises were executed, including dropping the winchman on the afterdeck, transferring lifeboat crew to the helicopter, and a stretcher exercise. After our helicopter crashed in the courtyard, Jimbo and I rushed inside the house. While he held his machine steady and followed the sprinting animals, the on-board sniper darted the last two heifers and the helicopter winched them back to dry land. They were scrambled and reached the semi-conscious walker within minutes of the accident, and he was winched into the helicopter strapped in a special stretcher. Show More Sentences At 7.30 pm, Crewman Walters requested a rescue helicopter to help the fourth person and the lifeboat provided cover while this person was winched to safety. I wish she had seen the elderly nursing home residents being winched off rooftops on to a helicopter, wrapping sheets around their heads as they were too scared to look down. Two canoeists from Galway city had a lucky escape on Lough Corrib yesterday when a helicopter winched them to safety after they took shelter on one of the lake's islands. This was a superb demonstration of the RAF pilot's skill, holding a large helicopter in a hover next to a cliff face in the dark while winching the casualty on board. During my first two weeks as an aircraftman with the Airfield Defence Guards in Vietnam, there was a call for volunteers to train as helicopter gunners. This involves the use of specialized ships that can simultaneously launch helicopter forces and seaborne landing craft and air cushion landing craft. This helicopter had four lifting airscrews and five auxiliary propellers. Each officer spends every third day of duty at the airfield at Rockaway Beach, where Scuba maintains an air-sea rescue team with two divers and a helicopter pilot. The appearance of an air-sea rescue helicopter above the building led to speculation he was not going to miss out on a rare good-news picture opportunity. Arguably the highlight of the weekend, particularly for the viewing public, is the air-sea rescue exercise courtesy of the lifeboat and the search and rescue helicopter. A helicopter hovers overhead, a bit of air support for the ground troops. The helicopter can be equipped with a probe for air-to-air refuelling. Who can forget Lindsey Vonn dangling from a Medevac helicopter after her 2013 season-ending crash? Specifically, the team was to reconnoiter potential helicopter landing zones, determine the level of enemy activity, and observe possible cave sites. Then out of the mist, a whirring of helicopter blades, and, deus ex machina, a man descends fromt he chopper to winch you aboard. Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds. After the helicopter refuelled for a second time, the crew finally airlifted the injured man at 9am as the trawler was en route to Castletownbere. At about 11 p.m. State Police started flying a helicopter over the scene, ordering the crowds to disperse. The Bobcat, because of its weight and the need to lighten the all-up weight of the helicopter by the consumption of fuel, was to be the final lift. After two days of bombings, she was evacuated along with other students by the U.S. Army on a Seahawk helicopter. Show More Sentences A buzzard dropped down to watch, a heavy twin-rotor helicopter thudded over, a jet lanced through, and a gamekeeper rolled past in a 4x4, that was the traffic for the day. Illuminated in the darkness by a helicopter searchlight, McCaleb falls into unconsciousness, the film fades to white, and the next scene is a doctor's office two years later. Two lifeboats, a rescue helicopter, an RAF Hercules plane and two Navy war ships spent 30 hours scouring the seas and coast but his body was never found. An ammunition box inside a Huey helicopter that crashed in 1968 is riddled with bullet holes from ammunition that exploded inside during the ensuing fire. A helicopter MTV chartered to skim the Florentine rooftops annoyed residents, who called the police to complain. The stunt shot required him to cling onto the rope ladder of a helicopter, which was to get airborne and fly off into the sunset as the final scene in the movie. He walked up to Blaine just as the helicopter rotors disengaged. Although a helicopter has a main blade, rotating at 500 rpm above it, and a tail rotor that acts as a rudder, it remains a completely unstable machine. The airspeed of the advancing rotor blade is much higher than that of the helicopter itself. When the helicopter is hovering, the outer tips of the rotor travel at a speed determined by the length of the blade and the rotational speed. Aft cyclic will cause the nose to pitch up, slowing the helicopter and causing it to climb. In 1994 it acquired the helicopter manufacturing business of Westland Aircraft. This shore base, or 'stone frigate' was called HMS Boscawen later to become, with the advent of the helicopter, HMS Osprey. During the difficult rescue, one helicopter broke two winch lines, making it even harder to rescue the seamen. Size has also increased, some designs reaching up to corvette size, 800 tonnes including a helicopter, giving them extended modes of operation. First helicopter leaves Tharos with casualties for Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Approximately 100 people had to be rescued by helicopter and 116 cars were swept out to sea. The last time I saw him, I was putting him on a medivac helicopter in the Arizona Territory. Wind, fire and smoke prevented helicopter landings and no further instructions were given, with smoke beginning to seep into the personnel block. A LIFE boat and rescue helicopter were called to help several people caught in a riptide at a beach in North Wales yesterday. Show More Sentences Instead many of the men moved to the fireproofed accommodation block beneath the helicopter deck to await further instructions. Roman Savin and Vitaliy Karpenko were plucked from a liferaft by an RAF helicopter crew early on Sunday. Inclement weather caused a BHP Billiton helicopter to crash in Angola on 16 November 2007, killing the helicopter's five passengers. After the tail rotor fell off, Robinson managed to keep the helicopter airborne for about a half-mile. There is a support base at Heysham Port and personnel are typically moved by helicopter from Blackpool International Airport. The Commissioners of Irish Lights decided in 1960 to erect a reinforced concrete lighthouse with helicopter landing pad on top. For Flight Training, Eurocopter and Bristow Helicopters both have helicopter flight Simulators in buildings at the airport. The Indian army plans to debut the country's advanced light helicopter, the Rudra, this year in military service, a defense official says. The airport handles around 500,000 passengers per year by helicopter for the North Sea oil fields. The passengers for this enormously expensive helicopter fleet? With the discovery of North Sea oil, helicopter operations began in 1967, linking the growing number of oil platforms to the mainland. One of these crewmembers, Wendy Touton, suffered hypothermia and was taken by helicopter to Tralee General Hospital. Passengers cross the river to Aberdeen Heliports in Freetown by hovercraft, ferry or a helicopter. Visiting Cabo de Hornos can be done on a day trip by helicopter or more arduously by charter power boat or sailboat, or by cruise ship. There are several air ambulance and rescue helicopter services operating throughout the South Island. We study helicopter risk by means of the risk influencing model, so the effect of changes is related directly to the RIFs in the model. Several other groups were also evacuated by helicopter after weather conditions on Dartmoor deteriorated. On 12 June, some personnel transferred from the Argentine hospital ship to the British ships by helicopter. Llanberis Mountain Rescue went to his aid and he was airlifted to hospital by an RAF helicopter. From 1950 to 1951, the world's first scheduled passenger helicopter service ran between Liverpool and Cardiff. Show More Sentences Swansea Coastguard scrambled a Rescue helicopter from RAF Chivenor and sent Watchet and Minehead Coastguard rescue teams to the scene. The helicopter was set ablaze by fire from assault rifles and heavy machineguns after the craft started blasting them, opposition forces said. An RAF helicopter from Kinloss was scrambled to airlift the pair from the cliff before winching the fire officer to safety too. The helmets offer impact protection of a traditional helicopter helmet, with windblast protection of a fixed-wing helmet. Collaboration between ground and air assets increased skills in airmobile operations, directed engagements and helicopter entry and exit drills. To apply the algicide, crews affixed a huge spreader filled with copper sulfate to the underside of a helicopter. In addition, portable diving facilities may be transported by helicopter or small boat to the work area. The day trip visitor had become unwell around 30 minutes out of Penzance, so a doctor travelling on board asked for the helicopter. Patrick O'Donoghue has landed a job as a helicopter pilot crusading against Japan's cruel slaughter in the Antarctic Ocean. Private and charter helicopter flights to Tresco are still welcomed by the owner. Tresco's principal industry is tourism, and the heliport supported this by enabling scheduled helicopter service to and from the mainland. In 2016 plans were announced for a new helicopter service between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly. He was found by a US Coastguard helicopter crew that had tracked his emergency radio beacon. A US Coastguard helicopter found him near dusk by tracking an emergency radio beacon which may have saved his life. The RAF lacked aircraft large enough to transport Chinooks and so the helicopter crews flew themselves to Freetown. Our camp is reinforced with supplies flown in by helicopter. During the closing years of the 20th century designers began working on helicopter noise reduction. For this reason, the maximum safe forward airspeed of a helicopter is given a design rating called VNE, velocity, never exceed. A helicopter hovered overhead, catching every second of the gnarly ride. He flew ashore on the Norfolk's helicopter for daily meetings, with a detachment of Royal Marines ensuring security. Show More Sentences The end result is constant control inputs and corrections by the pilot to keep the helicopter where it is required to be. This is because a helicopter generates its own gusty air while in a hover, which acts against the fuselage and flight control surfaces. This causes the helicopter to push air downward or upward, depending on the angle of attack. Therefore, if a collective input is made, all the blades change equally, and the result is the helicopter increasing or decreasing in altitude. The result is to tilt the rotor disk in a particular direction, resulting in the helicopter moving in that direction. Turboshafts are also more reliable than piston engines, especially when producing the sustained high levels of power required by a helicopter. It comprises three helicopter squadrons and is commanded by the Joint Helicopter Command. While on route the helicopter crashed into the western side of Shanlieve, killing all three passengers and crew onboard. The rotor system, or more simply rotor, is the rotating part of a helicopter that generates lift. Army Special Forces, landed by helicopter and attacked three houses close to a known enemy stronghold in Pakistan. An air ambulance helicopter is equipped to stabilize and provide limited medical treatment to a patient while in flight. A helicopter used to carry loads connected to long cables or slings is called an aerial crane. Improvements in fuels and engines during the first half of the 20th century were a critical factor in helicopter development. Produced in several countries, the Bell 47 was the most popular helicopter model for nearly 30 years. The Model 30 was developed into the Bell 47, which became the first helicopter certified for civilian use in the United States. The subsequent Model 30 helicopter showed the design's simplicity and ease of use. When Young arrived at Bell in 1941, he signed his patent over and began work on the helicopter. In 1930, the Italian engineer Corradino D'Ascanio built his D'AT3, a coaxial helicopter. Colonel Tailyour arranged for more reinforcements to be brought in via helicopter. The helicopter borne assault of 45 Commando was the first time helicopters were used by UK forces to lift men directly into a combat zone. Show More Sentences In 1911, Slovenian philosopher and economist Ivan Slokar patented a helicopter configuration. But a private assault course and lawn suitable for helicopter landings is pretty extraordinary, we reckon. The helicopter was damaged by explosions and one of his workers was badly burned. Having taken the airfield with a dozen casualties, the remainder of the battalion flew in by helicopter. By air, the government owned Atlantic Airways provides helicopter service to each of the islands. Designs similar to the Chinese helicopter toy appeared in Renaissance paintings and other works. To celebrate, an RAF Sea King helicopter and other lifeboats are on their way for a seafront training exercise. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally. A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors. Skybus became the sole remaining air link for the Isles of Scilly from October 2012, when the helicopter service from Penzance ended. In 2014 at the New Delhi Auto Show, Renault announced a new model, the Kwid Concept, which comes with helicopter drone. In the late summer of 1986 Geoff Newman, a freelance helicopter pilot and consultant, contacted Holden about the air ambulance project. Bond and Her Majesty jump from the helicopter into the stadium with Union Flag parachutes. As of 2015, the helicopter is available 12 hours of the day, a first for the air ambulance service in Cornwall. In February the crew moved to Monaco and Monte Carlo for scenes in a casino and a demonstration of a Tiger helicopter. At this time the airport had a direct helicopter service to Central London from the gardens on the roof of the terminal building. With the change came a change in helicopter and the service now operates the MD902 Explorer, with its NOTAR design. In terms of power, a hovercraft would only need between one quarter to one half of the power required by a helicopter. I've seen her plug a lindwyrm through the eyestalk from a moving helicopter. For the identification of Kyrgyzstani killed in helicopter crash Aidana Bayziyeva, the DNA test will be conducted. Show More Sentences When they were not on helicopter duty, the crew would revert to their normal jobs on the road ambulances in the County. The aircrew are selected from existing ambulance service personnel and specially trained for their work on the helicopter. The helicopter flies about 1000 missions per year, and has flown over 20,000 missions in total. Cornwall Air Ambulance was the first dedicated helicopter emergency medical service operational in the United Kingdom. Trips from the camp to the Pole itself may be arranged overland or by helicopter. Or as any of us moguls fanatics could tell, the extra poundage gets in the way of the backscratcher, helicopter, iron cross and the daffy. In July 2000 Finmeccanica and GKN agreed to merge their respective helicopter subsidiaries to form AgustaWestland. I am very grateful for this opportunity to debate the Heathrow to Gatwick helicopter airlink. It is also used as a training location for military rescue helicopter pilots. Petty Officer Rivas found loose ball bearings in an engine-drain screen on a squadron MH-53E helicopter. As a helicopter moves from hover to forward flight it enters a state called translational lift which provides extra lift without increasing power. An extra Twin Otter aircraft was sourced for the beginning of the 2013 season following the cessation of helicopter services to and from the islands. Liam, who is currently an Aircrewman trainee on the new Merlin Mk2 helicopter with Culdrose's 824 Naval Air Squadron, PS10 per mile, for his two chosen charities. We are loud and wear ear defenders on stage, and sometimes our manager 'Beverley' Bordman, a former Vietnam helicopter pilot, comes on stage wearing a frock. It recommended fundamental reorganisation of the ambulance service and various other options, including introduction of a helicopter air ambulance. The swashplate can also change its angle to move the blades angle forwards or backwards, or left and right, to make the helicopter move in those directions. There is also a helicopter shuttle service, which offers air taxi services to a number of sites around the island, mainly on the West Coast tourist belt. When we were there, there were ten British Chinooks in the air for 5,000 or so fighting troops, one of them a medivac helicopter which was 30 years old. If the pilot pushes the cyclic to the side, the rotor disk tilts to that side and produces thrust in that direction, causing the helicopter to hover sideways. However, the helicopter is low on fuel and the royal flies off to refuel, leaving behind winchman and paramedic Master Aircrewman Richard Taylor to look after the 15-year-old. Show More Sentences Britain, which has not experienced a helicopter escape since the late 1970s, has been more aggressive about installing antihelicopter nets in its prisons. Despite these warnings, about one vehicle each month is stranded on the causeway, requiring rescue by HM Coastguard, Seahouses RNLI lifeboat, or RAF helicopter. The earliest helicopter engines were simple mechanical devices, such as rubber bands or spindles, which relegated the size of helicopters to toys and small models. A second helicopter was eventually added to the service in the summers. The Russian community has also experienced two air accidents, Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, which killed 141 people, and the Heerodden helicopter accident. Four of the crew were rescued by a helicopter from RAF Chivenor. Avalanches and rockslides cut them off for two days and James had just a handful of rations left when he was rescued by helicopter and flown back to Base Camp. In a moving helicopter, however, the speed of the blades relative to the air depends on the speed of the helicopter as well as on their rotational speed. A Spanish Maritime Safety Agency AW139SAR rescue helicopter. The Schweizer 269C-1 helicopter struck power cables attached to wooden poles 30ft off the ground at speed while performing an exercise known as autorotation. Another light helicopter based recce was launched an hour later. One could scarcely expect the man to know how to fly a helicopter. When introduced on 1 April 1987, Cornwall's air ambulance was the first dedicated helicopter emergency medical service operational in the United Kingdom. Balzers Heliport is available for chartered helicopter flights. The Fw 61 broke all of the helicopter world records in 1937, demonstrating a flight envelope that had only previously been achieved by the autogyro. For a standard helicopter with a single main rotor, the tips of the main rotor blades produce a vortex ring in the air, which is a spiraling and circularly rotating airflow. A helicopter is also being used to monitor the rally aerially. On her first visit to Iraq in 2005, when travelling to Shaibah, the largest British base in Southern Iraq, the helicopter she was travelling in was targeted by missiles. Lifeboats, Coastguard teams and an RAF helicopter searched the area for two hours before spotting the couple waving at them from the shoreline at Allhallows, Kent. The heliport was served by the mainland helicopter service from 1983 to 2012 and now offers a landing site for private and charter helicopters by private arrangement. Show More Sentences In 1908, Edison patented his own design for a helicopter powered by a gasoline engine with box kites attached to a mast by cables for a rotor, but it never flew. The accident was noticed straight away as when the helicopter tail got caught in the wire, the area suffered a black-out, which alerted the EAC switch board. All five people aboard were killed RUSSIA An unidentified survivor of an oil drilling platform Kolskaya is evacuated from a ship Magadan to a helicopter in the Sea of Okhotsk. Edison built a helicopter and used the paper for a stock ticker to create guncotton, with which he attempted to power an internal combustion engine. My bluntish point is that anyone trying to get into Glasgow city centre for an afternoon's spend better come in a helicopter if they want anywhere near Argyle Street. Troy Leveron, and I were given GPS coordinates on a piece of scratch paper by the EA-6B squadron XO, who was coordinating helicopter HADR operations. The regular whump of rotating helicopter blades segued into the sound of an old car engine idling, before evolving into a burst of static resembling a poorly tuned radio. The Cornwall Air Ambulance helicopter provides cover to the islands. Earlier on Tuesday morning, the helicopter deputies had spotted Whitfield's Chevrolet truck stuck in a mud bog off a dirt road a half-mile from the home, the sergeant said. Loaded with eight Hellfire missiles, 38 antitank rockets and a 30 mm cannon the helicopter will be used to provide close support for ground troops. In the same year Saro's helicopter and hovercraft interests were taken over by Westland Aircraft which continued the Skeeter family with the Scout and Wasp. The latter was intended to be transported under a helicopter. The Duke of Cambridge piloted the RAF Sea King helicopter while his colleagues winched the teenager to safety from Silver Bay, Anglesey, on Thursday. In a March 2007 helicopter count, only 960 individuals were detected. More than an hour later, Saudi special forces made it through traffic and, along with others from their unit who arrived in a helicopter, fought to retake the compound. On 29 June 2011, a passenger had to be airlifted from Scillonian III by a rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose after complaining about severe chest pains. Meanwhile, 42 Commando prepared to move by helicopter to Mount Kent. Examples from Classical Literature The helicopter turned and went windmilling away, over what had been the Golden Triangle, down the Ohio. Its roof was lush with vegetation but by dextrous handling he set his helicopter down upon it. When Bowers got within a foot of the floating man, a rescue helicopter arrived and threw Bowers a life preserver. Here, YouTube user ST3VEoGaming has posted a video on a trick to rappel from a helicopter. The droning hum of the helicopter came across the broken ground. Blesser said that to prove the accuracy of its flight control system, a basketball was attached to the helicopter with a rope. The course concludes with Soldiers rappeling and fast-roping from a 34-foot tower, and then performing rappels from a Black Hawk helicopter 70 to 90 feet in the air. Spiral bevel gear have been found widely used in helicopter, truck transmissions and reducers for transformation of rotation and torque between intersected axes. A spokeswoman from Biggin Hill airfield said the pilot and passenger of the Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopter died when it came down near the village of Cudham. Nineteen black rhinos recently went for a helicopter ride in South Africa. Find more words! 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