36 examples of helicopter in sentences

flattop [Coll.]; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first- rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer.

There were machines of dozens of other types, monoplanes, bi-planes, machines of the helicopter type, and a few devices based on the parachute principle.

All God's chillun got helicopters.

Henry the helicopter.

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WILLIAMS, BEN D. Henry the helicopter.

The Helicopter adventure.

Henry the helicopter.

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WILLIAMS, BEN D. Henry the helicopter.

The Helicopter adventure.

The helicopters began to turn, to buzz, to roar into furious activity, seeking to check the plunge.

Her propellers had been shut off; all the power of her remaining engines had now been clutched into the helicopter-drive.

Her helicopters were droning with all the force that could be flung into them from the crippled power-plant.

The high-pitched drone of the helicopters told that the crippled engines were doing their best; but even that best was not quite enough.

The exuberance of his nature burst forth with a half-defiant: "If I were in charge, which I'm not, I'd stop those damned helicopters, let her down, turn what power we've got into the remaining propellers, and taxi ashore!"

The droning of the helicopters, the drift of the sickly white smoke thatrising from Nissr's sternwafted down-wind with her, the drunken angle of her position all gave evidence of the serious position in which the Flying Legion now found itself.

The ace inspected the vacuum-gauges, the helicopter tachometers, and shrugged his shoulders.

The drone of the helicopters sank to a sullen murmur; and down below, waves began combing angrily over the gallery.

Helicopters O.K." "And floats?"

The engines had already been started, and the helicopters had begun to turn, flickering swiftly in their turbine-tubes.

" CHAPTER XXVIII ONWARD TOWARD THE FORBIDDEN CITY The Master rang for full engine-power, and threw in all six helicopters with one swift gesture.

The droning of the helicopters rose to a shrill hum.

"Slow her!" commanded the Master into the engine-room phone, and began compensating with the helicopters, as Nissr lagged over the crowded city.

The only witnesses were the Arabian Desert stars; the only requiem the droning of the helicopters far above, where Nissr hung with her gleaming lights like other, nearer stars in the dense black sky.

36 examples of  helicopter  in sentences