21 September 1950, first helicopter to fly over the Alps.

Once again, a Chinese military helicopter circled a Japanese escort ship.

A Bell 412 prototype first flew in August 1979.

The Bell 417 was a variant of the Bell 407 based on the Bell ARH 70.

The Kazan Helicopter Plant is one of the largest helicopter manufacturers in the world.

It s no use throwing dollars out of a helicopter, as Brazilian Minister of Finance Guido Mantega put it.

Suffocation cases between the civilians in Masaken Hanano after Assad helicopters throwing barrel bomb loaded with chlorine gas Ahmad Alkhatib ( AhmadAlkhtiib) 18 November 2016

It released 23 million in emergency assistance and deployed three helicopters and 50 soldiers to Aceh in the service of humanitarian organizations.

The Omani Navy had one 2,500 ton Nasr al Bahr class LSL (240 troops, 7 tanks) with a helicopter deck.

Declaring a no fly zone is not a soft option it must mean being prepared to shoot down any fighters, bombers, or helicopter gunships that breach it.

But neither wants to leave in ignominy, with their last man dramatically lifted of an embassy rooftop by helicopter.

In January, the military reportedly deployed gunships and fighter jets in a push to shut down KIA headquarters in Laiza.

No expenditure were incurred since no formed police units were deployed as of 30 June 2004, as arrangements with police contributing countries could not be finalized during the period.

During a May 2, 2011 raid, 24 members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group arrived by helicopter, breached a wall using explosives, and entered the compound in search of bin Laden.

The crew for Crazyhorse 1 8 then located multiple individuals with weapons about 400 meters east of coalition forces and was given clearance to engage the targets.

Helicopters (Alouette, Boeing Vertol) were introduced in the late 1950s and 1960s and this fleet air arm remained an integral part of the fleet and its operations until an independent helicopter arm was created in 1990s.

The analogy popularized by the great monetarist economist Milton Friedman was that the central bank could always deal with deflationary problems by dropping money from a helicopter.

This is undoubtedly why the Pakistani government refused an Indian offer to send in helicopters for relief work in and around Muzaffarabad, the flattened capital of Pakistani administered Kashmir.

The number of air violations decreased from 30 in the last reporting period to 25 one by a Turkish military aircraft, one by a Cyprus Police helicopter and the remaining 23 of unknown or civilian origin.

First the European helicopter NH 90 will be introduced to replace the Lynx helicopters as a ship borne helicopter, but the Air Force also have an option of buying an additional 15 Search and rescue helicopters to replace its aging Sea King helicopters.

Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had made a passionate appeal for funds around the world, had taken a token helicopter trip to the destroyed town of Besham, and then made fantastic promises of relief and rehabilitation.

As if demonstrating its intention to ignore the protest, on April 21 Chinese Navy vessels sailed northward, between Okinawa and the Miyako islands, and conducted a large scale exercise. Once again, a Chinese military helicopter circled a Japanese escort ship.

Separately, on 1 March MONUC conducted a large scale cordon and search operation, carried out with infantry troops from Pakistan, Nepal and South Africa and the use of Indian attack helicopters, with the aim of dismantling an FNI headquarters in Loga (north east of Bunia), in Ituri.

The group has claimed responsibility for over 6,000 attacks in Iraq including the October 10, 2006 attack on Camp Falcon, the assassination of the American military commander in Najaf, the May 6, 2006 downing of a British Lynx helicopter and the October 3, 2007 attack on the Polish ambassador.

I urge both sides to make concerted and resolute efforts to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of criminal acts, including the ambush of a UNOMIG bus in Sukhumi in September 1998, the shooting down of a UNOMIG helicopter in the Kodori valley in October 2001 and hostage taking incidents.