copter

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Tested in Singapore in January, the system lets a copter crew launch a drone, control it from the cockpit and receive live footage to locate an area or a target without putting themselves at risk.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“In the years after the copter crash, I have maintained an extraordinary sense of gratitude on steroids,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

Migrants, some wearing shorts and flip-flops, clung to their rescuers as they were pulled up into the copter.

From Washington Times • Aug. 6, 2023

I wonder what it felt like to stand below as the copter floated above, leaving him behind.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

He heard the chopper coming up from the south, and within a few minutes Mel Willard had set the small bubble copter down in the alfalfa field directly behind Bud Gleason’s opulent adobe home.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols