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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. ..... Click the link for more information. traffic. heliport an airport for helicopters heliport [′hel·ə‚pȯrt] (civil engineering) A place built for helicopter takeoffs and landings. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The first building at The Towers is leased in its entirety to the North American headquarters of Diageo North America; the second building is leased to Hewitt Associates; and the third building at 901 Main Avenue, topped by a heliport, is leased to the headquarters of GE Commercial Finance, among others. Coinciding with the London Assembly Environment Committee (LACE) sitting to discuss helicopter operations in general LCY says that it is prepared to lead the research into the sitting of a heliport in east London to compliment the existing, and very much full, Battersea operation. The new station contains a 7,800-square-foot jail, a 8,300-square-foot vehicle maintenance facility, and a heliport. |
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