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Recent Examples of helipad
There is one single airstrip and a helipad available to the base, which has four visits a year, according to COMNAP.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
The Cuban actress, wearing a hoodie and shorts, can be seen talking with Cruise before stepping onto the helipad with one of her two dogs in her arms.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
The airport choppers, however, generally take off from helipads on the river, away from the city’s tall buildings.
—Barbara Peterson, AFAR Media, 21 Apr. 2025
Tour company’s owner unsure what went wrong The flight was operated by New York Helicopter, one of a handful of companies that offer tourists sightseeing flights over the city from helipads in Manhattan and the suburbs.
—Ted Shaffrey, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
The Cuban actress, wearing a hoodie and shorts, can be seen talking with Cruise before stepping onto the helipad with one of her two dogs in her arms.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
The airport choppers, however, generally take off from helipads on the river, away from the city’s tall buildings.
—Barbara Peterson, AFAR Media, 21 Apr. 2025
Tour company’s owner unsure what went wrong The flight was operated by New York Helicopter, one of a handful of companies that offer tourists sightseeing flights over the city from helipads in Manhattan and the suburbs.
—Ted Shaffrey, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helipad
Noun
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South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung arrives at a heliport in Seoul on Jan. 2, 2024, after he was stabbed in the neck during a visit to Busan.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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Jet fuel fumes and noise from heliports have been a source of complaints from communities for decades, leading Mayor Giuliani to shutter the E. 60th St. heliport in 1997.—
Eric Katzman,
New York Daily News,
25 May 2025
Noun
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When Stephen Colbert landed in New Zealand in 2019, his ride from the airport was Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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On Friday, at least 14 commercial and charter flights were landing in Miami from Havana, according to flight information from the airport.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Ukraine deployed first-person view, or FPV drones, in its attack on the Russian airfields.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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Russia conducted its second-largest missile and drone attack on Ukraine since the start of its invasion in 2022, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) whose graph illustrate the response to Kyiv's drone barrage on Russian military airfields.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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The Belaya air base, which is close to the Mongolia border, was successfully hit.—
Mike Brest,
The Washington Examiner,
2 June 2025
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The source also released dramatic video purportedly showing a drone attack at the Belaya air base in Russia’s Irkutsk region, located in Siberia, nearly 3,000 miles from Ukraine.—
Freddie Clayton,
NBC news,
1 June 2025
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“Helipad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helipad. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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