noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rescue helicopter/boat/ship
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A rescue helicopter is on its way.
helicopter pad
helicopter parents
launch/landing/helicopter pad
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The hospital has built a helicopter pad.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
military
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As many as 44 military planes and helicopters had been badly damaged, he acknowledged.
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A military helicopter was dispatched and the man was rescued based on the general description provided.
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The Chairman gave orders for the military helicopter to fly the scientist back to Baghdad.
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Although the city could get the surplus military helicopters for free, it must pay to maintain and operate them.
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Old-fashioned sandbags were laid in their tens of thousands, mostly by military helicopters , and effectively protected many homes.
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McGuire pleaded guilty to violating the federal Arms Export Control Act, conspiring to destroy military helicopters and aiding foreign insurgence.
model
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On very early model helicopters this was probably the only method which stood a any chance of success, but only just!
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The model helicopter pilot is not alone in suffering from this problem.
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Now it's up to you Only a few years ago it was a considerable achievement to fly a model helicopter at all.
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A model helicopter behaves in exactly the same way.
■ NOUN
army
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Meanwhile, powerful United States Army helicopters continued dropping massive concrete blocks to hinder the lava flow.
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Each night as they lay in bed, they could hear army helicopters hovering over the parish.
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What do I tell him the next time he asks about the army helicopters heading for the clouds?
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In that post he achieved a military first, using an aircraft carrier to transport Army helicopters and Special Forces troops.
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Most Army helicopters now operate with a crew of two, and the Gazelles of 658 Squadron are no exception.
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Pickett, an Army helicopter pilot, was shot down by the rebels in 1991, then executed.
attack
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Intruder jets from the aircraft carrier Ranger, and Cobra attack helicopters scoured the area for armed men.
crash
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And he, too, would later die in a helicopter crash on his way to a race in Talladega.
flight
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The gourmet weekend, including helicopter flight from Penzance and three-night break, costs £320.
gunship
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Both planes and helicopter gunships had been used.
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Our forward observer and company commander came up and called in some helicopter gunships .
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Our helicopter gunships flew 118 missions and returned safely to base.
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As soldiers jumped out of the lorries, firing all around, helicopter gunships appeared overhead.
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It is indisputable, however, that the warplanes and helicopter gunships occasionally make mistakes.
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Countless unarmed civilians fleeing to the borders were killed by helicopter gunships .
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As helicopter gunships buzzed overhead and tanks shelled two blocks of flats nearby, bulldozers set about destroying a swath of homes.
pad
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His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers, a hundred yards from the helicopter pad .
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He walked past the helicopter pad and along a sandy road that led toward the church spires.
pilot
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The model helicopter pilot is not alone in suffering from this problem.
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This explains why most of today's top helicopter pilots are connected with the model trade in some way!
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Walter Kovaleff, a helicopter pilot , said the hourly cost could run as high as $ 190.
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The helicopter pilots reported in by radio.
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The department has three helicopter pilots and two mechanics already on the force, said Kovaleff.
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A helicopter pilot has to fly to a point 200 kilometres due East.
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Life was getting very serious for helicopter pilots .
police
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Isabel Lenihan, who's 77, was found by a police helicopter .
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Next, a police helicopter flies over the crowd.
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As more than 300 people took to the streets, a police helicopter and eight vans carrying riot police were brought in.
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The maneuvers came after days of ominous-looking deployments around the residence by police helicopters , armored personnel carriers and commandos.
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A police helicopter was scrambled and armed units joined a search for the gunmen.
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A police helicopter was used in the search for the two men who were both white and wearing overalls.
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A police helicopter was called in to floodlight the area outside Kelvedon railway station where the 14-year-old girl was trapped.
rescue
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Highlight of the day was a 20 minute flight in one of the rescue helicopters .
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He was struck there for four hours with Park Service rescue helicopters buzzing around, throwing him ropes.
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A rescue helicopter was scrambled after his empty dinghy was spotted floating out to sea.
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The rescue helicopter strewed thousands of blossoms on the waters of the Bay.
ride
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Maybe she would relish a return and revel in her celebrity as the girl who got the helicopter ride .
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The tours will feature helicopter rides , horseback treks and river rafting.
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First prize was a helicopter ride won by Mrs Isobelle Flood.
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An optional helicopter ride down the canyon can be arranged for you by your escort.
■ VERB
fire
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As soldiers jumped out of the lorries, firing all around, helicopter gunships appeared overhead.
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There have been several incidents of so-called ARVNs turning around and firing into the helicopter that just dropped them off.
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We fired prep fire before helicopters would bring troops in the landing zone.
fly
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James Carney may have been hurled from a flying helicopter .
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She was flown to hospital by helicopter in a coma but died of multiple skull fractures.
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You either patrolled an area close by or you were flown by helicopter to the more remote places.
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At roundup time, Mercer teams with his oldest son, Gary, who flies a helicopter .
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She was flown by helicopter to hospital in Orlando.
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Maybe I ought to fly my helicopter up there and find out.
hover
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The helicopters hovered overhead in formation.
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I saw the helicopter hover in the air, and then it crashed into our guest house.
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A giant helicopter was hovering overhead, its spotlight trained on the field below.
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Each night as they lay in bed, they could hear army helicopters hovering over the parish.
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With the helicopter hovering overhead, he drove for the peak of the leading wave, but then backed off.
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Small patrol helicopters hovered over the treetops beyond the barbed wire.
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He has been pictured in a Tarzan suit with a helicopter hovering over his head.
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Police helicopters hovered and riot police were posted around the square and nearby side streets.
kill
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Countless unarmed civilians fleeing to the borders were killed by helicopter gunships.
provide
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During floods, the Sisters collect food, while the Government provides helicopters to deliver it.
shoot
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Tape of the scene shot by news helicopters show a distraught woman, driving a Jaguar, wearing a fur coat.
use
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For example, new antitank missiles, particularly when used from helicopters , are making main battle tanks obsolete.
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Officers used their helicopters when there was a contact, so when we went up, there was almost certainly action.
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They used helicopters , airplanes and mortars.
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About 240 firefighters using helicopters , planes and ground equipment were fighting the blaze.
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Mr. Dorrell Several ambulance services now use helicopters .
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The marines' concept of using helicopters was not the same as ours.
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They used a helicopter to make their survey of the volcano itself.
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They had used helicopters to lift the ARVNs to battles they almost always lost.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, those helicopters have many residents worried.
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As they came back, Robert's helicopter came into view.
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But the front of the vehicle caught the undercarriage and sent the helicopter shuddering sideways.
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Commanders naturally depended greatly on their helicopters.
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On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl.
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The shock of the explosion rocked the helicopter .
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Two helicopters and several Coast Guard boats searched until midnight without finding anything.
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With the helicopter hovering overhead, he drove for the peak of the leading wave, but then backed off.