Sentence examples for helicopter from inspiring English sources

The strain is likely to grow more acute as the government depends on helicopter gunships to extend its reach to parts of the country rendered impassable to logistics convoys and even armored vehicles by the rebels' improvised bombs.

Probably the most daring of all of the great escapes from La Santé was that of Michel Vaujour in 1986, whose wife, Nadine, swooped into the courtyard to snatch him up in a helicopter she was piloting.

Footage taken from an emergency ministry helicopter searching for survivors showed clear and calm weather as other trawlers steamed towards the area of the accident.

As Russell walked through Glasgow Cross, he said, he saw the helicopter flying westwards over the Saltmarket main road and railway bridges that run parallel to it, only a few hundred metres east of the Clutha Vaults.

Alarmed by what he had witnessed, Russell, a volunteer with the Barras Trust charity, which runs the market, said he ran towards the King Street car parks just north of the Clutha Vaults because he suspected the helicopter might have been trying to land there.

The chief constable, looking strained and sombre, said the helicopter had been flying back to its base on the Clyde after an operation in the city, rather than being on patrol.

Guzmán was then seen being walked to a navy helicopter wearing black jeans and a light shirt, his head down.

On the roof of our building a resister with a.22 rifle loosed off the occasional shot until he was killed by a passing helicopter.

"Just mostly stood under a tree thinking the helicopter couldn't see us".

After several failed rescue attempts, eventually a Chinese helicopter came to their rescue.

Local landowner Peter Lampard first noticed officers at the farm on Sunday night but the main buzz of activity started at 9.30am on Monday when a police helicopter and 14 police vans arrived.