Sentence examples for helicopter about from inspiring English sources

Compared with the several hundred people in the city who are able to commute by helicopter, about 3.7 million residents resort to the city's precarious bus system each day, according to municipal figures.

The floodwaters were moving too swiftly for them to be rescued by boat and they were picked up by the police rescue helicopter about 1pm.

General Rincón had been returning to Caracas from the ceremony in a separate helicopter about the same time as General Acevedo's helicopter crashed.

The insurgents inflicted a new blow when they shot down an Apache attack helicopter about three miles west of Baghdad airport, killing both crewmen.

Leitner Poma designed the mechanism, the towers of which were flown in to the resort by helicopter about two months ago.

The men, described as expert skiers, were spotted by the crew of a Placer County Sheriff's Department helicopter about seven miles from the Alpine Meadows ski resort, just west of Lake Tahoe.

The last helicopter left about 12 hours later.

Once everyone was inside, the helicopter flew about 18 miles before landing in a parking lot.

The helicopter fired about 4,000 rounds at the ranch house and a nearby warehouse, which caught fire.

"Mr Trump?" asks a nine-year-old named William Bowman, just as the helicopter is about to take-off.

The Augusta 15 helicopter landed about 10 30 p.m. because of what officials believe was a software problem with a computerized stabilization system, called the Stability Augmentation System.