Sentences with phrase «miles in a helicopter»

But 6000 miles in a helicopter seems far removed from this.

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Three helicopters and four air ambulance planes, on loan from various cities and companies, transported the most critically wounded to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, almost 170 miles away.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ended his six - city State of the State tour, speaking for nine hours total, according to his estimates, and traveling over 1,200 miles — with one emergency helicopter landing thrown in for good measure.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has ended his six - city State of the State tour, speaking for nine hours total, according to his estimates, and traveling over 1,200 miles — with one emergency helicopter landing thrown in for good measure.

The governor's shortest helicopter trip was also on June 6, a Monday when the governor's official schedule started with a 10 a.m. event at the Walkway Over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie — a 50 - mile drive from Mount Kisco.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ended his six - city state of the state tour, speaking according to his estimates, for nine hours total, and traveling over 1,200 miles, with one emergency helicopter landing thrown in for good measure.

They hiked 6 miles to meet the flat - bottomed skiff — which was strapped to the bottom of a helicopter and flown in — and carried nets, food, gear and gas because mules couldn't cross the streams swollen with snowmelt.

The helicopter took off in a maelstrom of blowing sand and rock, leaving us in the middle of a giant boulder field stretching several miles north toward Beacon.

Who is going to get in a helicopter and fly 50 miles offshore for a 2 - gallon spill?

Included - a helicopter rescue onboard a tanker in rough Alaskan seas; a race to reach a victim who fell off a 200 - foot cliff; a rescue endeavor after a bush - plane crash a few miles from base.

If you plan to take the helicopter, instead of hiking the last 8 miles out of the canyon, get there by 7 am to secure your place in line.

A barrier island accessible only by our private ferry, helicopter or sea plane, Kamalame Cay is located in the heart of Bahamas, off the coast of Andros Island and just one mile from the third largest barrier reef in the world.

Kanika Saigal writes for Quartz how threatened elephants that live in dangerous countries are deciding to migrate to safe places, like the Chobe National Park in northern Botswana — a sprawling 4,517 square mile (11,700 square kilometers) sanctuary where elephants can live their elephant lives without having to worry about being shot from a helicopter.

We read of many expeditions to gather data — from a young David Keeling taking water samples from rivers from Big Sur to Chincoteague, to Taro Takahashi doing the same from Atlantic depths of up to three miles, to Scott Stine tramping the Owens salt flats of California to examine prehistoric stumps, and to George Denton helicoptering in to collect data from remote New Zealand glaciers.

We are mostly among small, thin, one - and two - year - old floes, with very little of the older, harder and more resilient «multiyear», or permanent ice that you would expect in these latitudes.Our ice pilot, Arne Sorensen, went up in the helicopter and found little change even as far north as 83.50 — just 350 miles from the pole.

Last Wednesday, the helicopters and planes used in conjunction with firefighters could not fly because of the 50 - plus mile - per - hour winds, delaying containment efforts.