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helicopter

noun as in aircraft

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A police helicopter found Fuller's body in a wooded area hours later.

From BBC

After a Red Bull aerobatic helicopter improbably flipped over its rotor and pulled itself out of a dive at the last second, a group of children near the shore started imitating the maneuver in somersaults.

Outside the neighborhood, news helicopters hovered above the facility as Bisland and several of her friends went on an afternoon walk.

"My five-year-old asked me yesterday, when we had four helicopters above our heads all day, he said 'is this what happens every Yom Kippur?' I said no, this isn't normal," she said.

From BBC

The site has been cordoned off, with police, fire and ambulance services present and helicopters overhead.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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