Sentences with phrase «of helicopters landing»
Following several heated public meetings last week regarding helicopter noise over the North and the South forks, the East Hampton Town Board has decided to host a special meeting for residents to speak out against the growing impact of noise, «especially from increased traffic of helicopters landing and departing at the East Hampton Airport,» according to a statement from East Hampton Supervisor Larry Cantwell.
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IRA forces hijacked a helicopter and landed it in the exercise yard of the one of the jail's wings.
French officials said a helicopter crew that landed briefly in the area saw no signs of life.
Two men who had chartered a helicopter from San Juan, Puerto Rico to the city of Ponce hijacked the helicopter near the Las Cucharas prison and forced the pilot to land on a roof inside the complex.
Towards evening, a helicopter landed on the roof of the Korydallos prison.
A helicopter painted in similar colors to that of Mexico's attorney general's landed in the courtyard of Mexico City's Acatitla prison on August 19th, 1971.
In the 2007 escape, four armed men hijacked a helicopter and landed it on the roof of the Grasse Prison.
So this helicopter lands, and they motion for me to get on, when all of a sudden this guy comes running up.
During the keynote, Musk revealed a video of a prototype rocket that, once detached from the spacecraft, could re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land vertically like a helicopter.
7th Infantry Division Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division board CH - 47 Chinook helicopters piloted by 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade aviators during an air assault attack as part of the inaugural I Corps exercise Courage Ready 18 - 01 hosted by U.S. Army Alaska on U.S. Army Garrison - Alaska training lands near Fort Greely, Alaska, April 25.
UNHAPPY LANDINGS Sirs: The SCORECARD section of your September 9 issue contained a very amusing anecdote concerning a golf ball landing in a helicopter.
The medical helicopter was unable to land at the FIA's designated hospital in Shanghai, meaning much of Friday's free practice sessions were disrupted with no real running at all in FP2.
To operate under such conditions he would need, at the very least, a good set of maps and a helicopter to discern the lands from which he is legally barred from those that are illegally posted.
The helicopter landed a little before 5 p.m. at the peninsula that extends south of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, east of Soldier Field, said Julian Green, a spokesman for the Chicago Park District.
CHICAGO — A helicopter landed briefly Friday at Northerly Island, the former site of Meigs Field, said officials, who were still investigating why the pilot stopped there.
«Local governments have been unable to come up with enough money to preserve prairies, forests and wetlands,» Ryan told a crowd of about 200 who showed up Wednesday in Volunteer Park to watch Ryan's helicopter land.
Randy Beyer of Bolingbrook and his son, Johnny, 5, took a break from swimming at the nearby aquatic park to see the governor's helicopter land.
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.
A chartered helicopter carrying professional wrestler Shane McMahon — son of WWE CEO Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon, head of the Small Business Administration in the Trump administration — and a pilot made an emergency landing this morning in the waters off Gilgo Beach.
If the Town prohibited the landing of commercial operators of helicopters then the helicopters would not fly over the residential district since they would not fly at all.
«There was verifiable evidence that 2 Nigerian Air Force helicopters with registration numbers NAF 574 and NAF 575 landed in Gembu on 15 March 2018 and 11 April 2018 respectively without the knowledge of the local authority.
«The Nigerian Air Force helicopters and personnel that landed in Gembu area were for the proposed establishment of Nigerian Air Force Base at Gembu.
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo will get a new $ 12.5 million helicopter to carry him across the state after the comptroller approved a no - bid contract, two days after a harrowing emergency landing of his old - school chopper.
Legislator Lynne Dixon, Hamburg, announces that the necessary funding for a new state - of - the - art landing pad for the Erie County Sheriff's helicopter was approved during the Erie County Legislature's Oct. 20, 2011 session.
The emergency landing Gov. Andrew Cuomo made last week at Stewart International Airport was the result of an overheated part that created strong fumes inside the State Police helicopter that was ferrying the governor to New York City, a state police spokesman said Wednesday.
Spokesman Beau Duffy said the pilot landed in New Windsor because of «concern that the failed component could have led to a fire on the helicopter.»
The emergency landing Cuomo made last week at Stewart International Airport was the result of an overheated part that created strong fumes inside the State Police helicopter that was ferrying the governor to New York City, a state police spokesman said.
After the governor's helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing when it filled with smoke en route from Albany to NYC, the state comptroller might have had a change of heart about signing off on a new $ 12.5 million Sikorsky S - 76D helicopter for the State Police.
And so the governor took a state helicopter to the Sagamore, an island resort off Bolton Landing, about halfway up Lake George, to address the Laborers International Union of North America at its annual conference.
The Erie County Sheriff's Air One helicopter landed on the quad at Medaille College Wednesday, a vivid show of support for the college's Leaders in Training Program (LIT).
Legislator Edward A. Rath, III, Amherst, announce that the necessary funding for a new state - of - the - art landing pad for the Erie County Sheriff's helicopter was approved during the Erie County Legislature's Oct. 20, 2011 session.
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.
«Tory leader David Cameron narrowly escaped disaster after the landing gear handle of a helicopter he was travelling in came off in the pilot's hand.
Fixed - wing (airplane - style) drones like the Predator can carry much more weight for their size than rotary - wing (helicopter - style) drones, but can't hover to get a good close - up look at objects of interest, nor could they easily hand off a taco, and they need a runwaylike surface to land.
To learn about the everyday lives of these difficult creatures, Fischbach and his colleagues have been attaching satellite tags to walruses — a difficult operation in itself, requiring the biologists to land a helicopter downwind of the herd, then slowly wriggle forward on their bellies until they can fire a tag into an animal's thick skin.
He imagined a device that could fly in the relentless punishment of the jet stream: a giant wing, fitted with multiple turbines, that would take off and land like a helicopter.
From the helicopter, the land below resembled a massive explosion of white cake frosting over mountainous terrain.
When we landed, Skip stepped out of the helicopter, lookingshaken and pale.
Using radio - controlled helicopters, as well as cameras hung from kites and photographic poles, the team has collected more than 900,000 images from a roughly 4 - hectare swath of land.
A regular stream of helicopters is landing on the fields to drop off mostly elderly New Orleans residents.
What surprised us were the many signs of unauthorised visits — holes in the ground, marks from helicopter landings, and even a picnic site on the nearby beach, with benches, a primitive furnace and lots of discarded tins.
«We would get about 300 helicopters landing a month, all having some level of trauma,» says Dr. Elisha Powell, an orthopedic surgeon who served as commander of the U.S. Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, a facility described as «MASH on steroids,» where most of the severely brain injured are treated.
This past October Sierra Nevada tested the automated landing system by dropping the Dream Chaser from a helicopter; the vehicle's approach to the runway was spot - on, although a mechanical malfunction prevented one of the wheels from deploying, sending the vehicle skidding off the runway.
It is very similar to the current, unmanned Dragon resupply spacecraft, but with the new ability to soft «land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter,» rather than the normal method of parachuting from the atmosphere into the ocean.
Tordon is sprayed by trucks on most county roadsides and by helicopter on large areas of forest and pasture land.
Phelps was able to disengage the line connecting the helicopter to the back of the train, and grasped onto the helicopter's right landing skid.
After landing in a helicopter on the White House lawn with President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx), a spouter of fluff who carries Lincoln's pocket watch as part of a banal fixation, agent Hope (Jake Weber) says to Carol, «Do we have the best job in the world or what?»
Most effective in the progress of the film is the way the characters» lack of faith mirrors the viewer's skepticism: We are not satisfied with merely being told that the elevators can not get past the burning 81st floor, that the emergency stairwell is impassable, that the wind is too high for a helicopter to land on the building's roof.
Finally stealing a boat, riding through a monsoon in a helicopter and taking enough motion sickness pills to knock out a horse, Alex washes up on the shore of the lush land mass but Nim's welcome isn't quite what she envisioned.