By 4 p.m., he was on a helicopter headed for a weekend at Camp David.
"I was in command of a helicopter heading out over New York City.
Less than an hour later, Mr. Hussein was on an American helicopter headed south toward Baghdad and custody at an undisclosed location.
After he had spent about an hour at the border, Mr. Obama's helicopter headed back to Seoul, where he met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for discussions, mainly about Syria.
On November 6th, for example, a UN helicopter heading for one such village landed by mistake on the wrong side of the "line of control" that forms the border.The next day was the date set for the opening of five crossing-points along the line, to allow divided families and relief workers to cross.
That familiarity doesn't entirely rob the images of their power, and occasionally something new or particularly arresting pops up on screen, like the view from a helicopter heading into the infamous Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965, passing over discrete piles of bodies in every clearing: trees, corpses, trees, corpses.
ON A HOT AUGUST MORNING a couple of Chesapeake execs and I take off in a helicopter heading out west from Oklahoma City.
He has now departed the summit in his Marine One helicopter, heading for a Gloucestershire RAF air base before flying back to the US.
The helicopter headed for Greenock after Morton's win over Peterhead coincided with Forfar's defeat at home to Ayr United.
I can hear fog horns and grumbling engines and then countless lesser sounds: anchor chains grinding, a Chinese military helicopter heading for the New Territories, small waves slapping at the sides of fishing boats.
