Yesterday the broken city was filled with the noise of Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters and its still partly flooded highways were filled with rescue crews in flat-bottomed boats, searching those sections of the city still believed to have people living in them. The sounds of New Orleans were jazz, people laughing, people eating a good meal, ... And now the sounds of New Orleans are helicopters and army vehicles. This is almost surreal.
Quotes about helicopters (16 Quotes)
The government of Mexico is a co-conspirator in the smuggling of immigrants. This is how we reward them, with helicopters and ways to tap phones . . . Somebody just has a lot more trust than they should have in Mexico's ability to be a good neighbor.
Aspen is also collaborating with the U. S. Army and a leading defense contractor on a kit to shield the heat signature of combat helicopters to make them less vulnerable to heat-seeking missiles, ... We expect in the course of the next six months to have these kits on about 30 helicopters.
this is an Israeli occupation army on our land, shooting our children, besieging our cities, using tanks, using fighter helicopters, using every brutal method in order to suppress ... a civilian population on its own land.
Large-scale military operations in pursuit of Palestinian militants -- involving ground troops, attack helicopters, tanks and F-16s -- have taken place throughout civilian areas and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, causing large-scale loss of life.
And then here come the Janjaweed on camel or on horseback, ... They come rolling into the town, shooting and torching the village, often bringing women to the side and raping women indiscriminately. And in order to ensure that the destruction is complete, the government either sends ground forces to oversee the operation, or the attack helicopters, which often are the most deadly things.
He looks like he could actually do the sort of things Bond does, which is hard for actors to do, since most of them are nice guys who don't pack guns or rappel from helicopters to shoot people.
The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
I can look at the data generated by the Defense Department itself some 40 percent of our Army helicopters not combat ready, the fact that money is now being drained out of the procurement budget to support a lot of the deployments overseas, the fact that the force has gotten as small as it has, ... Clearly, some reductions were justified with the end of the Cold War. But we have gone way beyond that now.
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
He looks like he could do the sort of things Bond does, which is hard for actors to do since most of them are nice guys who don't rappel from helicopters to shoot people.
Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.
That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
The first of the armed reconnaissance helicopters are scheduled to enter service by the end of 2004,