rotary-wing aircrafts

plural of rotary-wing aircraft

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rotary-wing aircrafts
Noun
  • Flight data captured by the website Flightradar24, mapped by Newsweek above, showed the rotorcraft departing US Davis Medical Center in a northerly direction before its signal is lost just before Highway 50.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike rotorcraft drones, bird-like machines could blend efficiency with stealth, navigating turbulent conditions more naturally.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • News helicopters caught agents coming and going from those homes and searching vehicles outside.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
  • With runways damaged in at least one village, some evacuations had to rely on helicopters.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While Black Ops 6 toyed with a more grounded, back-to-the-basics approach of UAVs, airstrikes, and attack choppers as scorestreak rewards for tallying enough points or kills, the speculative fiction framework of BLOPS 7 means everything requires a heightened tone.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Levine Cava bristled, saying the only money left to fund the choppers would be the county’s emergency fund — dollars reserved for hurricanes or other calamities.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Rotary-wing aircrafts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotary-wing%20aircrafts. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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