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heliport
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heliport, airport airport or airfield, place for landing and departure of aircraft, usually with facilities for housing and maintaining planes and for receiving and discharging passengers and cargo.
..... Click the link for more information.  designed exclusively for helicopter helicopter, type of aircraft in which lift is obtained by means of one or more power-driven horizontal propellers called rotors. When the rotor of a helicopter turns it produces reaction torque which tends to make the craft spin also.
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heliport
an airport for helicopters
heliport [′hel·ə‚pȯrt]
(civil engineering)
A place built for helicopter takeoffs and landings.
heliport
A facility where helicopters land, take off, and are maintained or repaired.
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