9 sentences with 'helicopter'
Example sentences and phrases with the word helicopter and other words derived from it.
• « In the meantime, Sergeant Flores had requested a helicopter, which was already overhead with two policemen on board. One of them described Edwin over a loudspeaker and then said in a booming voice: "If you see this boy, call the emergency number? »
• « Suffering from a severe asthma attack, she was flown by helicopter to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where she was immediately put on oxygen and medication; soon the attack stopped. »
• « The Italian carabinieri considered that, because of the location of the body, the case belonged to Austria, and the Austrian gendarmes promised to send a helicopter to the mountainous area. »
• « As the weather worsened, the helicopter returned to Innsbruck, some 70 kilometres away. Another attempt would be made after the weekend. »
• « As they flew over the mountains by helicopter, Dr Henn thought the examination of the body found would be like so many others. However, he dismissed that thought as soon as they arrived. »
• « In 1907, the Frenchman Paul Cornu invented the helicopter and astonished the world with his metal beetle that could take off and land anywhere. »
• « In 1907, Louis Breguet and Paul Pichet presented their new version of the helicopter, invented by Paul Cornu. From then on, the history of the helicopter became an incessant record of small advances in which it is possible to find the most varied models that combined, with greater or lesser success, the three decisive variables of the traditional helicopter: practicality, capacity and size. »
• « The appearance of the avioncopter around 1980 added a new variable to the old models: speed. For the first time, the construction of a helicopter with turbojets was attempted. »
• « Leonardo da Vinci, ahead of his time, not only left numerous sketches and designs of flying machines, but also studied what would eventually become the helicopter and the parachute. »