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Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea
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helicopter
Alternative clues for the word helicopter
Word definitions for helicopter in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1861, from French hélicoptère "device for enabling airplanes to rise perpendicularly," thus "flying machine propelled by screws." The idea was to gain lift from spiral aerofoils, and it didn't work. Used by Jules Verne and the Wright Brothers, the word ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Helicopter \Hel"i*cop`ter\, v. i. to travel in a helicopter.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Helicopter " is a song by English rock band Bloc Party that was originally released in the UK in 2004 on the Little Thoughts EP , and two years later as a single from their debut album, Silent Alarm in the US. The song was received with much acclaim, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a rescue helicopter/boat/ship ▪ A rescue helicopter is on its way. helicopter pad helicopter parents launch/landing/helicopter pad ▪ The hospital has built a helicopter pad. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE military ...
Usage examples of helicopter.
The enlarged flyby surveillance photograph hanging on the wall showed in grainy black and white the cabin and its grounds, including the wide, elevated back porch on which Glenn Abies could be seen standing, small but unmistakable, giving the helicopter the finger.
The rotor wash whipped at Abies as the helicopter turned above, then dipped sharply down behind the tree cover and disappeared.
After a few moments the seeker saw the shape forming up ahead, the boxy bridge, the pointed bow, the tall central mast and the funnel aft, with the box of the hangar for the Dauphin helicopter and the flat helo-deck aft.
He also caught sight of a helicopter being rolled out onto the helo deck aft as he pulled his eye away from the eyepiece, snapped down his eyepatch and lowered the periscope.
He could not see the pilot, but he had a fair idea where the man would be huddled on the floor, and he was just aiming at that part of the floor when the helicopter veered sharply up the cliff.
So 430 troops of the 1st Battalion, 7th Air Cavalry, Airmobile, 1st Cavalry Division, loaded on UH-1 helicopters, known as Hueys, and went on a search-and-destroy mission.
A number of enemy radar tracks converge there, and we believe it may be a helicopter staging area for a airmobile assault, almost certainly.
Serb helicopters about, too many airmobile troops, to risk an incursion by U.
Likeliest would be an airmobile assault by helicopter coming out of the southeast, mountain-hopping across the rugged, forested border with Greece.
As the helicopter hovered into view again a quarter of a mile ahead of them, Aragon cut the throttle and began to turn the craft toward the bank, but Sanders shook his head.
Arnica shrank back and averted her gaze, staring at the side of the helicopter as they passed her.
Wednesday, November 2 1734 hours Near nuclear bomb plant Chah Bahar, Iran The helicopter with the Iranian flag on the sides made three sweeps across the barren saddle between the two mountains, hesitated as if for a third look, then drifted to the north and swept down a valley, and out of sight of the seventeen SEALS.
They would use the kids as hostages and boogie to the border in that big flashy Jaguar with the helicopters broadcasting every moment of the trip on live TV.
A helicopter, presumably from one of the local television stations, had buzzed overhead toward the end of the conflagration, but the Fort Gillem post commander had a professional briefing team set up.
Then they went out of the area of the task to reach an LS where a helicopter could come in and casevac him.