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Helicopter   Listen
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Helicopter  v. t.  To transport in a helicopter.






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"Helicopter" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning Arcot had a long conference with President Morey. At the end of it, he left the office, ascended to the roof, and climbed into his small helicopter. He rose to the local traffic level, and waiting his chance, broke into the stream of planes bound for the great airfields over in the Jersey district. A few minutes later he landed on the roof of the Transcontinental ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell

... with light and clean and shimmering shapes of silvered steel. At the same time a new impetus was given to aviation by the relatively enormous power for weight of the atomic engine, it was at last possible to add Redmayne's ingenious helicopter ascent and descent engine to the vertical propeller that had hitherto been the sole driving force of the aeroplane without overweighting the machine, and men found themselves possessed of an instrument of flight that could hover or ascend or descend vertically ...
— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells



Words linked to "Helicopter" :   shuttle helicopter, chopper, skyhook, single-rotor helicopter, landing skid, vane, cargo helicopter, eggbeater, rotor, blade, heavier-than-air craft, whirlybird



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