Helicopters

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally-spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of VTOL (Vertical TakeOff and Landing) aircraft cannot perform. The English word helicopter is adapted from the French word hélicoptère, coined by Gustave Ponton d'Amécourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix (ἕλιξ) "helix, spiral, whirl, convolution" and pteron (πτερόν) "wing". English language nicknames for …

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BC Forest Practices Board · 11 March 2024 English

Audit results of Tolko Industries Ltd. forestry planning and practices on timber licence T0816.

government orders, assessing some features from helicopters and measuring specific features like riparian


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 March 2024 English

systems worth $5 billion, as well as a series of important transactions involving the transfer of helicopters, submarine technology and aircraft engines (Schwartz 2021). This alignment and these types of sales

important transactions involving the transfer of helicopters, submarine technology and aircraft engines (Schwartz


Conservation Council of New Brunswick · 5 February 2024 English

As part of our Climate Solutions Program, we aim to identify strategies to achieve net-zero emissions in the electricity and energy sectors, hence our participation in the Regulatory Framework for …

utilizing aerial monitoring, such as airplanes, helicopters, or drones, alongside on-site monitoring that


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 February 2024 English

A recent book by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner1 reveals the following sobering statistics regarding complex infrastructure projects: Only 47.9 per cent of such projects were delivered on budget, 8.5 …

procure new fighter jets, new search-and-rescue helicopters, new support ships and new surface combatant


MiningWatch Canada · 10 January 2024 English

Arrest of the Five Santa Marta Water Defenders On January 11, 2023, on the orders of the Attorney General of the government of Nayib Bukele, police arrested six men, five …

October 2023, the U.S. donated two more military helicopters and other military equipment in a major photo


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English

One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …

3rd Special Forces Group – used three MH-47 helicopters, flying at low altitude in the dark. They spent damaging of two other Russian Ka-5241 attack helicopters at the Veretye 1 0 5 C H A P T E R 7 F O R C Russia is believed to have about 90 of these helicopters in their inventory. CHAPTER 8 1 Cited in David


RI: Rideau Institute · 13 December 2023 English

The resolution is identical in its text to the one, which was voted upon in the Security Council and its aim is to seek an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to provide …

are filled with projectiles of deaths, attack helicopters, drones, artillery shells, tank shells, mortars


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 5 December 2023 English

Copyright © His Majesty the King in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of National Defence, 2023 The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author …

long-term planning commitment speaks to China helicopters and turbofan aircraft engines, sales and Russia’s receiving military areas such as heavy-lift helicopters, ballistic education and training overseas, high-ranking communication equipment, F-35 stealth fighters, helicopters, submarines, 33 The CIA’s number two official


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 28 November 2023 English

The most recent one is the death of the cameraman of the Al Qahera News channel and the injuries suffered by another journalist in the bombing against the surroundings of …

11 were the doing of IDF forces using Apache helicopters and tanks -- not the Palestinian resistance forces pieces, large numbers of transport planes and helicopters, kits to provide laser guided missiles, and the


CAPP: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers · 2 November 2023 English

To protect the health and safety of individuals at the training site and during training the Training Provider must take all reasonable measures to ensure that anything it supplies for …

load and off load materials and supplies from helicopters and, in some organizations, may perform routine coordinates the logistics of cargo movements, helicopters, marine activities, and other services while load and off load materials and supplies from helicopters and work in conjunction with the Crane Operator marine-related safety features available on offshore helicopters L ● ● ● 2.3.2 Identify available emergency equipment search and rescue equipment available on SAR-helicopters L ● ● 6.2.8 Describe the points of attention


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