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

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

His fear of heights freezes him on a suspension bridge in the Costa Rican rainforest, and terrifies him during a desert copter flight in Utah.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

The small drone copter flits around Mars as an aerial complement to the rover's ground-based observatory.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 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