Helicopters are typically ambushed as they land, take off or hover.

Helicopters frequently take much longer to just get off the escort's deck.

* Light-duty / civilian part of Hughes Helicopters, sold off by McDonnell-Douglas in 1995

Helicopters however have proved highly vulnerable to small arms ground fire, and so in American service, most missions that would have originally fallen under the domain of the attack helicopter are instead being executed by the much more heavily armoured A-10.

Helicopters in this game have a limited amount of fuel and must return to the hangar about once every half an hour to refuel, which costs money.

Helicopters overcame this problem as they were able to hover over the victim and give aid by dropping a line to them with either a basket or diver to assist their extraction.

On 4 February 2012 Madhuri Dixit interacted with Cancer affected children on World Cancer Day organised by Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd at Juhu, Mumbai. On World Cancer Day Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited offered a Free Joy Ride to Cancer affected children with the support of Cancer Patients Aid Association.

* 1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2. 5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people.

* The song " Unmarked Helicopters " appears on the X-Files tie-in album Songs in the Key of X, as well as the episode " Max " from season 4.

* September 30 – The Hughes Helicopters ( later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS ) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

* November 6 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2. 5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport, killing 45 people ( the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record ).

These include all current Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer models as well as Helicopters.

Helicopters such as the Lynx and Westland Wasp have been deployed on smaller vessels since 1964, taking over the roles once performed by biplanes such as the Fairey Swordfish.

Helicopters also became important combat vehicles starting in the 1960s.

Helicopters can transport light armored vehicles such as the German Wiesel AWC, LAV-25 and British CVR ( T ) series.

In 1981, using experience gained from the XV-3 and XV-15, Bell and Boeing Helicopters began developing the V-22 Osprey, a twin-turboshaft military tiltrotor aircraft for the U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Marine Corps.

The Type 194 was in an advanced state of design when the Bristol Helicopter Division was merged, as a result of government influence, with the helicopter interests of other British aircraft manufacturers ( Westland, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ) to form Westland Helicopters in 1960.

Since May 2011 the aircraft in principal use has been an MD Helicopters MD Explorer 902.

After the war the company focussed on helicopters, and was merged with several other British firms to create Westland Helicopters in 1961.

While the majority of fixed-wing aircraft design and construction lie in the British Aircraft Corporation and the Hawker Siddeley Group the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

Westland Helicopters was a British aerospace company.

The chairmanship of Eric Mensforth from 1953 – 1968 marked the start of the transition, which was aided by the government when in 1959 – 1961 they forced the merger of the 20 or so aviation firms into three groups, British Aircraft Corporation and Hawker Siddeley Group took over fixed-wing designs, while the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

An Indonesian navy ship bringing aid supplies to Meulaboh was forced to turn away after it was unable to dock because the port facilities were destroyed.

The Indonesian Navy is the largest navy in the region of South East Asia.

The majority of the vessels in the Indonesian navy are from the Netherlands and Britain.

LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.

On January 1962, a naval battle erupted when an Indonesian infiltration fleet of four torpedo boats were intercepted by Dutch ships and planes off the coast of Vlakke Hoek.

On the second trip, he commanded two ships and in October 1613 was appointed accountant-general of all VOC offices in Indonesia and president of the head office in Bantam ( Indonesian: Banten ) and of Jakarta.

Pope had atttacked Ambon city before Dewanto could catch him, but Dewanto intercepted him just as Pope was attacking one of a pair of troop ships in an Indonesian fleet west of Ambon Island.

Then he flew west of the city and tried to attack one of a pair of troop ships being escorted by the Indonesian Navy.

Other units included artillery and engineers, while a number of RAN ships were involved in shelling Indonesian positions in Borneo and in repelling infiltrators in the Singapore Strait.

Several surface vessels employ stealth technology, amongst them the Swedish Visby-class corvette, the Dutch Zeven Provinciën-class frigate, the Turkish MİLGEM corvette, the Norwegian Skjold-class patrol boat, the French La Fayette-class frigate, the Chinese Houbei-class missile boat and Type 054 frigate, the German MEKO ships Braunschweig-class corvettes and Sachsen-class frigates, the Indian Shivalik-class frigate, the Singaporean Formidable-class frigate, the British Type 45 destroyer, the U. S. Navy's Zumwalt-class destroyer, Finnish Hamina-class missile boats, Chilean Patrol Vessel PZM based on the German OPV80 and Indonesian 63m Stealth Fast Missile Patrol Vessel.

As of 2008, the Indonesian Navy has about 74, 000 active personnel and more than 150 ships in active service including attack submarines.

The Indonesian Navy purchased a number of ships of the Parchim, Frosch and Kondor Class from the former East German Navy in the 1990s.

Malacca then was an inconvenient stronghold for non-Portuguese ships heading for the Indonesian Archipelago, China or Japan.

The massive 9. 3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.

** An Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.

Thus a better understanding of the possible links between El Niño, Western Pacific Warm Pool, Indonesian Throughflow, wind pattern off western Australia, and ice volume expansion and contraction can be obtained by studying the behaviour of the LC during Quaternary at close stratigraphic intervals.

After the massacre, the US Congress voted to cut off funding for IMET training of Indonesian military personnel.

President Clinton cut off all US military ties with the Indonesian military in 1999.

The Australian government promoted a strong connection with the Indonesian military at the time of the massacre, but also cut off ties in 1999.

( Jawi: مدورا ) is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java.

The Indonesian Schouten Islands ( Kepulauan Biak, also Biak Islands or Geelvink Islands ) are an island group of Papua province, eastern Indonesia in the Cenderawasih Bay ( or Geelvink Bay ) 50 km off the north-western coast of the island of New Guinea.

An Indonesian endemic, the Wilson's Bird-of-paradise is distributed to the hill and lowland rainforests of Waigeo and Batanta Islands off West Papua.

However, on 18 May Indonesian naval and air forces off Ambon Island shot down an AUREV B-26 and captured its CIA pilot, Allen Pope.

The collision lifted the Himalayas and most of the Indonesian islands, and created a long arc of highlands and islands, which includes the Arakan Yoma range of Burma, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and the islands off the west coast of Sumatra, including the Banyak Islands and Mentawai Islands.

In 1994 Freeport-McMoRan spun off its entire interest in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, which became an independent company, fully focussed on the Indonesian operation.

He regarded Sukarno's Republic as economically inept and unable to ward off the Indonesian Chinese, Indonesian Indians and the rising Indonesian Communist Party.

This touched off the Indonesian National Revolution against the forces of the British and Dutch.

His books were banned from circulation, and he was imprisoned without trial, first in Nusa Kambangan off the southern coast of Java, and then in the penal colony of Buru in the eastern islands of the Indonesian archipelago.

The Karimata Islands are a chain of small islands off the west coast of Indonesian Borneo, the largest of which is ( Pulau ) Karimata, being about 20 km across ( east-west ), and situated at.

The Lingga Islands or Lingga Archipelago ( Indonesian: Kepulauan Lingga ) are a group of islands in Indonesia, located south of Singapore, along both sides of the equator, off the eastern coast of Riau Islands province on Sumatra island.

Another region that piracy occurs, and it can be of a much larger scale, is in and around the Indonesian islands and off the coasts of the Asian mainland.

Indonesian " Bajau " fishermen from the Spice Islands ( e. g. Banda ) have fished off the coast of Australia for hundreds of years.