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helicopter

noun as in aircraft

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The airport, which operates the single busiest runway in the U.S., was the site of a January midair collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people.

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Border Patrol agents made arrests in downtown Chicago on a recent weekend, and an overnight raid on a South Side apartment building last week used Black Hawk helicopters and netted 37 arrests.

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Air-traffic control operations have faced heightened scrutiny following a deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet in Washington, D.C., earlier this year.

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The effort involved trap experts, dogs, trail cameras, setting and monitoring 100 traps, and helicopters to transport people and equipment.

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Schwarzman, who usually arrives by helicopter, also bought the farm next door to host pheasant and partridge shoots.

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