Sentences with phrase «helicopter rotor blades»

Both airplane wings and helicopter rotor blades are subject to one problem — they can both ice up.

The way helicopter rotor blades produce their characteristic noise has been photographed for the first time, in a bid to make the craft run more quietly

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To take off and land, the whole thing would swivel vertically 90 degrees, with the rotors facing upward and acting like helicopter blades.

As their rotor blades spin, helicopters create a series of closely spaced pressure pulses that travel through the air to the ground below.

Be it taking out a Russian attack helicopter with a stealthy hero or destroying a whirlybird by damaging its rotor blades with bottles of hooch during a zombie apocalypse; the following fights with airborne a-holes are the definition of badass... eh, if someone's recently rewritten the dictionary.

I can feel the rotor blades on my helicopter starting to slow.