Helicopters stories:
Cumbria floods: Your stories
Nov 20th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
BBC News website readers have been writing to us to describe the floods that have engulfed their town.
In Cockermouth, where water levels reached 2.5m (8ft 2in), more than 200 people were rescued by emergency services - 50 by RAF helicopters...Cumbria floods spark major rescue operation
Nov 20th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
A major rescue operation is under way in Cumbria after severe flooding caused the evacuation of hundreds of people in the county.
A police officer is missing after a bridge...Cockermouth floods: Eyewitness trapped in hotel
Nov 20th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Residents of Cockermouth have been contacting BBC News to describe the floods that have engulfed their town. A rescue operation is under way to evacuate about 200 people from Cockermouth...
RAF helicopters used to evacuate 200 people from Cockermouth
Nov 19th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
A major rescue operation was launched tonight to evacuate more than 200 people after severe flooding cut off the centre of Cockermouth in Cumbria.
RAF helicopters, mountain...Merlin's the magic word for our troops
Nov 16th, 2009 - Mirror.co.uk
The first of six urgently-needed RAF Merlin helicopters is loaded on to a transport aircraft bound for Afghanistan. Upgraded and reinforced, it is set to beef up the heavily-stretched air support moving troops around war-torn Helmand...
Helicopters videos from YouTube:
2:58Huey Helicopter taking off at the Ulster Airshow 2007
Huey Helicopter taking off at the Ulster Airshow 2007
4:20Los Angeles Fire Department Sky Crane Tanker Fire Helicopters - La Canada fire 2009
Los Angeles Fire Department Sky Crane Tanker Fire Helicopters refilling in the Verdugo mountains while fighting the 2009 La Canada fire. August 27, 2009.
1:46CH-47 Chinook Helicopter RNLAF.
GREAT DEMO OF THESE GOOD CHINOOK CREW. SONG: System of a Down - hiddentrack OPEN HOUSE NATO AIRBASE LJOUWERT 2006. The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a versatile, twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. Its top speed of 170 knots (196 mph ...
4:50The Top 10 Best Attack Helicopter in the World
The Comanche is cancelled in 2004. It will never going to enter service. Just forget the Comanche chopper OK!!! Plus this top 10 are only list helicopters which is in service. AH-64D Apache Longbow Operators = USA, UK, Japan, Israel ...
Helicopters from WikiPedia:
A helicopter is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades. Helicopters are classified as rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from fixed-wing aircraft because the helicopter achieves lift with the rotor blades which rotate around a mast. The word 'helicopter' is adapted from the French hélicoptère, coined by Gustave de Ponton d'Amecourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix/helik- (????-) = 'spiral' or 'turning' and pteron (??????) = 'wing'.
The primary advantage of a helicopter is from the rotor which provides lift without the aircraft needing to move forward, allowing the helicopter to take off and land vertically without a runway. For this reason, helicopters are often used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft cannot take off or land. The lift from the rotor also allows the helicopter to hover in one area more efficiently than other forms of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, allowing it to accomplish tasks that fixed-wing aircraft cannot perform.
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