Crossword clues for helipad
helipad
- Skyscraper topper, sometimes
- Landing spot on a roof
- Chopper's destination
- Whirlybird landing place
- Rooftop landing site
- Rooftop landing area
- Landing place for one type of aircraft
- Landing area on a rooftop
- Hospital landing point
- Copter landing site
- Chopper's rooftop stop
- Chopper's origination point
- Chopper's landing place
- Adelphi (anag) — landing place
- Landing place on a roof
- Feature of many a hospital rooftop
- Rooftop feature, perhaps
- Where some touchdowns are made
- Takeoff spot for many a traffic reporter
- Special touchdown point?
- Soft area in New Delhi for place to land
- Landing ground needs helium for large computer
- Heap laid out, but not a place to land on
- Landing spot
- Rooftop landing spot
- Chopper's landing spot
- Chopper's landing site
Wiktionary
n. (label en aviation) A small landing place for helicopters, denoted by a large "H".
Wikipedia
A helicopter landing pad (helipad) is a landing area or platform for helicopters. While helicopters are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard surface away from obstacles where a helicopter can land safely.
Larger helipads, intended for use by helicopters and other VTOL or powered lift aircraft, may be called vertiports. An example is Vertiport Chicago, which opened in 2015.
Usage examples of "helipad".
Johnny Green at the helipad, and Marmie, who promised to make a call that would have what Yana thought she needed loaded and ready to go.
She ran through the enormous dust cloud they had caused, and the wind from their chopper blades, and without saying a word, they dragged her into the chopper and took off, and flew the short distance to the 159th MDHA unit on the base where they had a helipad all set up, and a cluster of nurses and corpsmen waiting.
Gulf, or bawling out her greeters as she stepped from the scrapertop helipad, late for her little lunch with B.
She could see well enough, could see all the likely approaches, from the waterbus stops on the canals or from the nearest helipad, and at least she could be relatively comfortable.
Aircraft parking areas, helipads, large vehicle parking areas, fuel storage areas, and weapon storage bunkers were favorite targets for the Wolverines' cluster munitions and sensor-fuzed weapons.
Patrick met the Mi-24 attack helicopter as it settled in for a landing at one of the many helipads at the airfield near Jaghbub.
Air Force MPs in full battle gear created a perimeter around the helipads and nearby parking lot, and Agent Sanchez radioed each of her team members for one final check.
This system has to be towed into position, and consists basically of a platform which carries the drilling rig, cranes, helipads and all essential services, including living accommodations, and is attached to the seabed by firmly anchored legs.
Long, dry grasses predominated in the yard, even growing up in between the slabs of concrete laid down for the driveway near the garage and back behind the pool house for a helipad.