Helicopters

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft cannot perform.

The English word helicopter is adapted from the French word hélicoptère, coined by Gustave Ponton d'Amécourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix (ἕλιξ) "helix, spiral, whirl, convolution" and pteron (πτερόν)
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Chickenhawk
Helicopters
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
Slimer
Yellow Copter
Temptation Ridge (Virgin River, #6)
The Shapes of Midnight
Where Eagles Dare
Elecopter
Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot In The Big Red One
The Umbrella Conspiracy (Resident Evil, #1)
Life Flight (Extreme Measures, #1)
Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)
Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
Apache by Ed MacyChickenhawk by Robert MasonSnake Pilot by Randy R. ZahnMASH aneb jak to bylo doopravdy by Richard HookerBlack Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Man, I Really Like Helicopters
75 books — 14 voters
Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn BowmanHornet Flight by Ken FollettCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldAirs Above the Ground by Mary  Stewart
Reach for the sky
442 books — 45 voters

Whose Hat Is This? by Sharon Katz CooperHorses by Patricia HubbellWhose Hat? by Margaret MillerHat by Paul HoppeHorseplay by Karma Wilson
Preschool-'H'
8 books — 3 voters
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena  ArmasThe Bride Test by Helen  HoangThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Wright Brothers by David McCulloughUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Plane! The Plane!
302 books — 52 voters

Dustoff 7-3 by Erik SabistonThe Chopper Boys by Al J. VenterRattler One-Seven by Chuck GrossGUTS 'N GUNSHIPS by Mark   GarrisonThis is Minuteman by Wayne Chasson
Helicopter War Books
30 books — 1 voter
Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLost Horizon by James HiltonMayday by Nelson DeMille
Aircraft And Air Travel In Books
85 books — 21 voters


Andy   Hunt
Easy!,” you think. “Gently lower the collective pitch lever and you’ll descend gracefully to the ground, a hero.” However, when you try it, you discover that life isn’t that simple. The helicopter’s nose drops, and you start to spiral down to the left. Suddenly you discover that you’re flying a system where every control input has secondary effects. Lower the left-hand lever and you need to add compensating backward movement to the right-hand stick and push the right pedal. But then each of thes ...more
Andy Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Adrian McKinty
The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas. Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife. And all this through a lens of oleaginous Belfast rain.
Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

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