helo

• “Maintaining course and speed, aye,” the helm responded, and everyone turned to watch the television screen as the helo was rolled out onto the hangar deck, its rotors unfolded, and the flight crew climbed in. —  Blindfold Game
• All five times the Pheodora ‘s skipper had been cagey enough to keep the ship within three hundred yards of the line, so that if a Coast Guard C-130 Hercules on patrol or a helo launched from a cutter appeared on the horizon, one kick to the rudder put the vessel’s bow back over. —  Blindfold Game
• A half hour later the aviators were buttoned into the helo, the captain gave the go, and they were up and off a few minutes later. —  Blindfold Game
• The helo was running up on the stern about a hundred feet up. —  Blindfold Game
• My teammates intervened seconds later, picked me and the woman up and took off for our landing zone, where a Boeing Apache helo was hightailing it to rescue us. —  A Man Alone by Lindsay Mckenna

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