The landing system is similar to a sky crane heavy-lift helicopter.

A special heavy-lift helicopter used on the Manhattan Limited project.

Officials said they would go into Haiti with planes or heavy-lift helicopters to bring out Americans if the order was given.

Terminology may understandably be confused since only a few countries deploy heavy-lift helicopters.

The 10-tonne helicopter would be offered to the Indian Navy to meet its requirement for heavy-lift helicopters.

At the same time, heavy-lift helicopters lowered hundreds of huge sandbags into the south end of the gap.

The only aircraft working on Sunday afternoon were heavy-lift helicopters dropping water, but their efforts were largely for naught.

In July 2010 a proposed Russian-Chinese development of a 33-ton heavy-lift helicopter was announced.

Captured airfields are sometimes used for this purpose, allowing the use of C-17 transport planes and heavy-lift helicopters to bring in supplies rapidly.

Such an operation would be obviously enhanced by fifty heavy-lift helicopters, especially in getting crucial weapons and supplies on the beach in a hurry.

Heavy-lift helicopter.

The combat weight being at 9,250 kg allows the vehicle to be transported by heavy-lift helicopters and gives it an amphibious capability.

Skytech Helicopters is a Belgian helicopter company operating heavy-lift helicopters in different countries.

He noticed it because the sky overhead was suddenly filled with a pair of Chinese antisubmarine aircraft as well as a single long-range heavy-lift helicopter.

Eight American military helicopters joined the relief efforts, and 40 heavy-lift helicopters were promised to ferry food, water, medical supplies and tents.

More recently, heavy-lift helicopters have dragged minesweeping sleds, as in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

The Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane is an American twin-engine heavy-lift helicopter.

Twin-engined heavy-lift helicopter, 3 built.

But in the end the Army gave up on the idea as newer heavy-lift helicopters like the S-64 Skycrane made the train concept outdated.

Seven of the heavy-lift helicopters are destined for the Navy and seven for the Marine Corps.

Heavy-lift helicopters were shuttling pieces from the Dragon's Mouth stone yard to the erection site with clockwork frequency.

The expansion plans continued in early 1980s with the incorporation of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter.

Nickname Of the twin-rotor, turbine-engined, heavy-lift helicopter that eases Vixen 03 to shore after it is raised.

Yakovlev Yak-60 is the possible designation for an experimental Yakovlev tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter design of the late 1960s.

"America's heavy-lift helicopter".