Sentence examples for helicopter position from inspiring English sources

The odometer estimates helicopter position by visually locking on to and tracking ground objects.

Hence, its implementation is simple; it just needs a small modification to the software of the helicopter position controller.

The group says some prisoners are left for days in what is known as the helicopter position - lying face down with their hands and feet bound together.

In the effort to trap the Communist command element in a pincer, three battalions of South Vietnamese airborne troops — nearly 2,000 men were ferried by helicopter to positions north of the target and immediately began to sweep southward.

The wheelbase on a Black Hawk is 29 feet, but just to be safe the helicopter is positioned diagonally across the landing zone.

Helicopters were positioned.

We had helicopters pre-positioned in Honduras and others dispatched to the scene as soon as wind and rain permitted.

But changing the system required the notoriously bureaucratic Army to make significant changes in the way medical helicopters were positioned, as well as increasing coordination between hospitals, forward surgical teams and front-line units.

"We don't have any military helicopters pre-positioned in the north," said Lt. Mark Gough, northern spokesman for the Canadian military, the agency in charge of search and rescue.

Also late Monday, Israeli jet fighters and helicopters attacked positions believed held by Hezbollah to the north of the occupation zone, a security source said.

But members of the central bank's executive board have ruled out helicopter money, a position that Mr. Draghi highlighted on Thursday.