Sentence examples for helicopter technology from inspiring English sources

Mr. Piasecki included Army correspondence expressing support for the project, which involved an experimental helicopter technology.

They said that Pakistani officials had denied that they showed the advanced helicopter technology to other foreign governments.

It is an attractive idea, but a flying generator is a difficult thing to build and there is a limit to how helpful existing helicopter technology will be.

"It is difficult to understand why we would use U.S. tax dollars to fund the further development of foreign helicopter technology," he said.

The two scaling trajectories in civil aircraft corresponding to the piston propeller and the turbofan paradigm can be compared with a single, less pronounced scaling trajectory in helicopter technology for which we have data during the period 1940 1996.

Charles H. Kaman, an innovator in the development and manufacture of helicopter technology and, following a wholly different passion, the inventor of one of the first electrically amplified acoustic guitars, died on Monday in Bloomfield, Conn.

The announcements flowed out of Rick Santorum's Senate office: a $3.5 million federal grant to Piasecki Aircraft to help it test a new helicopter propeller technology; another $3.5 million to JLG Industries to bolster its bid to build all-terrain forklifts for the military; $1.4 million to Medico Industries to upgrade equipment for its munitions work.

Fonden's Web site in July listed 130 projects — infrastructure, foreign aid, some social projects like health clinics — as well as the purchase of helicopters, submarine technology, assault rifles and plants to build other munitions.

The researchers are using the helicopter to test technology that would make it possible for a computer to fly, say, a drone that looks like a dragonfly.

Shooting a million laser beams every four seconds from the bottom of a helicopter, the lidar technology (which stands for light imaging detection and ranging) allows a kind of virtual deforestation to take place, stripping away the tree canopy to reveal what lies beneath on the forest floor.

Aircraft type (e.g. turboprop, turbine engine, helicopter), on-board technology (e.g. volcanic ash avoidance systems).