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"Helicopter" Quotes from Famous Books
... shimmering shapes of silvered steel. At the same time a new impetus was given to aviation by the relatively enormous power for weight of the atomic engine, it was at last possible to add Redmayne's ingenious helicopter ascent and descent engine to the vertical propeller that had hitherto been the sole driving force of the aeroplane without overweighting the machine, and men found themselves possessed of an instrument of flight that could hover ... — The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells |
Words linked to "Helicopter" : single-rotor helicopter, skyhook, chopper, whirlybird, eggbeater, landing skid, heavier-than-air craft, vane, shuttle helicopter, rotor, cargo helicopter |
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