What is "rotor blade"

Usage examples of "rotor blade".

The faint thumping sound of a rotor blade beating the air came toward them, growing louder with each passing moment.

This happened to us two or three times, and we're sick about it, and one night I see Vic studying the leading edge of the rotor blade on his Huey.

As Murphy watched through his binoculars, the rotor blade started to spin, then gain speed until it was just a blur.

The little chopper's rotor blade must have caught him in the nape of the neck.

The staff officers below saw the MIL stagger, then rip like a tin can, belching flame, spit off bits of molten metal and chunks of rotor blade and fuselage - before they began running to escape the debris as it sagged then drove down towards them.

A rotor blade had chopped into the hard earth, looking for a moment like it had buried itself several feet with the impact.

Then Goose noted the broken stubs of the other rotors and knew that the rotor blade the craft rested on had shattered, too.

The other Hind found its rear rotor blade had been neatly sheared off from the rest of its airframe.

Koski suddenly stiffened and cocked an ear in the direction of the unmistakably thumping beat of a helicopter's rotor blade.

Pitt braced himself for the impact and threw the Ulysses straight up into the attacking plane, the helicopter's rotor blade!

Free from the sinkhole, Pitt finds the rotor blade of his helicopter shattered and sets off tracking the rebels and their prisoners on foot.

Pamela had the impressions of an instant seared into her brain, the sight of a snapped-off rotor blade cart-wheeling across the sky, of men on the ground wreathed in flame as the ammo in their belts cooked off.

Pitt tosses one into the rotor blade of an attacking helicopter, and it crashes.

Pitt tosses one into the rotor blade of an attackinghelicopter, and it crashes.

But if any part of its main rotor blade touches solid ground, the chopper would just do a flaming cartwheel into the jungle.