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The biggest-rotor helicopter in the world could lift over 10,000 pounds and be heard from eight miles away

Helicopters come in all sorts of weird shapes and sizes. In the early days of mass-produced helicopters in the 1940s and ...
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Would Helicopters Work On Mars? This Study Has A Theory For Making One

Helicopters on Mars may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or perhaps just a typical "Doctor Who" episode. But actually, they're not fully confined to the world of sci-fi; after all, ...
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Helicopters dump 6,000 logs into rivers to undo 40 years of damage

In the forests and canyons of the Northwestern US, helicopters are now doing something that would have horrified river engineers a generation ago: dropping thousands of tree trunks straight into the ...
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Ingenuity, the NASA Helicopter Flying Over Mars, Ends Its Mission

The robot flew 72 times, serving as a scouting partner to the Perseverance rover, aiding in the search for evidence that there was once life on the red planet. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has ...