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The helicopter made a drop of much-needed supplies to the stranded hikers.直升机向被困的徒步旅行者空投了他们急需的用品。
The helicopter was hovering above the building.直升机在大楼上空盘旋。
I heard the noise of a helicopter hovering overhead.我听到头顶上直升飞机盘旋的声音。
The crew of the ship were winched to safety by a rescue helicopter.全体船员被救援直升机吊运至安全的地方。
The helicopter stirred up clouds of dust.直升机扬起了阵阵尘土。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Air travel: fixed-wing aircraft & helicopters
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amphibian
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biplane
chopper
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helicopter | American Dictionary

helicopter
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhel·ɪˌkɑp·tər, ˈhi·lə-/(short formcopter)
a type of aircraft without wings but with large blades that spin on top

helicopter | Business English

helicopter
noun[ C ]
 TRANSPORTuk /ˈhelɪkɒptər/us
a type of aircraft without wings, that has long flat parts on top that go round very fast. Helicopters take off and land vertically.

Examples of helicopter

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Note that the helicopters are not physically coupled in any way.
The average salary per soldier is about $3,500 per month, with top helicopter pilots and country commanders earning about $7,500.
The overall motion plan for a single virtual lead helicopter is assumed.
They assumed perfect foresight, perfect markets, and "helicopter drops" of money to cheering households.
The following equations are the system matrices of the helicopter's lateral and longitudinal model.
That feeling went away with each wounded marine we loaded on a helicopter.
The curves showing the path of the helicopters for the cases of 0% and +20% inertia uncertainty are either very close or coincident.
However, the inertia parameters used with the dynamic model to simulate the response of the helicopters are different for the two cases.
Finally, overhead add a low flying helicopter and a more distant passenger plane.
Working in the context of helicopter collision avoidance, he describes the qualities required of a system that is capable of working in that setting.
It is assumed that a virtual helicopter as a group leader adapts the bulk motion of the group as its planned trajectory.
Late at night, police helicopters buzzed through the darkness, their spotlights fingering the ground and tracking individuals on streets and rooftops.
The first phase would occur during darkness, with the troops arriving by helicopter.
Our goal is to find a control law that determines u such that the helicopter follows other helicopters with desired threedimensional relative distances.
The mesh generates a more dense interconnection between the helicopters, which is safer and more robust.
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helicopter carrier
The helicopter carrier is an important part of the amphibious jigsaw.
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