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Recent Examples of rotorcraft
The mission will have a drone-like rotorcraft tour Titan to analyze what’s on its surface.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
During the mission, a rotorcraft will fly to a new location every Titan day (16 Earth days) to take samples of the organic compounds on its surface, search for chemical biosignatures and investigate the moon’s active methane cycle.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Footage of the test depicts submunitions tearing into the rotorcraft and vehicles.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Monday’s raid amounted to a month’s worth of rotorcraft destruction.
—David Axe, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
During the mission, a rotorcraft will fly to a new location every Titan day (16 Earth days) to take samples of the organic compounds on its surface, search for chemical biosignatures and investigate the moon’s active methane cycle.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Footage of the test depicts submunitions tearing into the rotorcraft and vehicles.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Monday’s raid amounted to a month’s worth of rotorcraft destruction.
—David Axe, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rotorcraft
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With its own helicopter pad on the top of the 38-story tower, the Rolls-Royce showroom and Houston's only Bugatti dealership on the ground floor, you will be immersed in luxury from head to toe.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The search for Top involved over 50 personnel, including local police units and partner agencies, and employed ATVs, drones, and helicopter support, police said in an update on July 31.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Some of our favorite budget-friendly tools and gadgets are deeply discounted right now—from fish spatulas and instant-read thermometers to vegetable choppers and prep bowls.—
Olivia Tarantino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
11 July 2025
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Advertisement At the end of The Old Guard 2, Discord has incapacitated Andy’s team, including Nile, bagging them and carting them away on choppers.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
2 July 2025
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While still in the air, these copters would start up and fly away from the entry capsule, which would crash on the Martian surface as the autonomous aircraft make their own way down.—
David Szondy
August 01,
New Atlas,
1 Aug. 2025
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Search: Boats, a copter and a postcard Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
12 May 2025
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Currently searching are 1 Jayhawk helo from Air STA [station] Ventura, 1 C-27 from Air STA Sacramento, [the] CGC Sea Otter, 1 small boat each from STA SD & the MSST [Maritime Safety and Security Teams], as well as several partner agencies.—
Jesus Mesa
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 June 2025
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Inspired as a child by the supersonic helo on the television series Airwolf, Hill spent 25 years planning the HX50 before unveiling a rendering in 2020.—
J. George Gorant,
Robb Report,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Rotorcraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotorcraft. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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