Helicopter Quotations

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.

As the Marine One helicopter lifts off from the White House, the Prowler team watches for snipers. The team also responds to any threat that may arise at the White House itself.

You learn to understand it, but if you step back, you do think it is either strange or unfair. But I know that if you don't score, play well or win, you are wrong to have a helicopter and fly home each week to see your kids. You are wrong to have a business outside of football.

When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style.

I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter back. Got to write the whole thing off as research on my taxes.

I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

With this situation here, as long as we had a suspect that had firearms that we knew was shooting at law enforcement and shooting at the helicopter we knew it wasn't safe to leave the freeway open.

Simply put, the round-the-clock helicopter rescue missions conducted by many services across three states, potentially saving thousands of citizens, was not a 'Hollywood role' by our military and Coast Guard personnel,

Since the Palestinians are beginning to wage something that approximates a guerrilla war, our helicopter attack was a signal that if there is one, we have the answer to it,

My favourite thing is to come down to London from my home in Staffordshire in the helicopter and then get my bike out of the back and cycle into London. It's wonderful.

My first attempt at the Dakar Rally ended with a seat in a helicopter and I never wanted to be in that position again. I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I think over the 15 days we were the better all-round team. It's a fantastic feeling to win the Dakar. I experienced many highs and lows in my skiing career, but this is so different.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

On 'Southland,' when a helicopter joins our scene, we don't skip a beat. The actors talk louder because that's what cops do in real life.

On some sets, if a helicopter goes by, what would normally happen is that somebody would go, 'There's a helicopter. Stop.' I'd never stop for a helicopter. I am always trying to make sure that the machine is in service to the actors.

But when I saw the helicopter and they found us, it was relief.

Because this is a major staging area, every helicopter and airplane from this part of the state is landing there. We're having to wear earplugs while we work because the noise is so deafening particularly from the Black Hawk helicopters and jumbo jets which began landing on Saturday, ... In spite of the challenges, the medical personnel on site are enthusiastic about their work and they welcomed us with open arms.

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

If the chairman could have loaded the family into a helicopter to go to all of these meetings and all of these parks for $5,000, he would have.

He came out of the Cabinet room. The helicopter had landed. People were getting on their coats to run off to the helicopter.

There is no evidence to prove the involvement of hostile fire in helicopter crash. We have no evidence to support the claim of Taliban,

Here we're at, looking at the eve of the worst fire season we've seen in years and we have a helicopter that could be a big turning point.

His wife told police that he had had a concussion a few weeks before, and they didn't know what the impact of the crash had done to him. There was a helicopter called in that first day (to look for him).

He was obviously not a very good pilot because he dumped the helicopter when he got out of the facility,

Later on that evening, our daughter and son-in-law called back and said, 'We don't know what kind of pull you have, but we saw a helicopter come straight across the river to this house and shine lights inside the house,' ... While we were talking to them on the phone, a National Guard Humvee picked them up and took them to Moss Hill. They were very thankful to have a dry place, but there was no food, no water. It was just dry.

Our road and helicopter operations have been suspended today because of bad weather.

Road conditions and helicopter availability will determine the speed of the rehabilitation process.

Locating villages is difficult for helicopter pilots. Adding an extra hour of flying time in the search for a landing zone is straining airframes.

We came out here, Miami-Dade police, and as you can see, our helicopter was up and our dog was out and numerous uniformed officers were in the area conducting a grid search.

We were going to mount a helicopter onto a frame that fit onto a snowmobile and have Arnold appear to be shooting down the hill, and Arnold said to Jim (Cameron), 'If you will put your 2-year-old in it, then I will get into it.' He made it very personal to all of us.

We sent a helicopter when he fell and they found his heart had stopped. Sadly, they were unable to revive him.

Yeah, I'm willing to do anything, ... This next week, they're hanging me out of a helicopter 200 feet in the air, so 'Thriller' was nothing.

Today we are announcing the selection of Lockheed Martin, ... This effort will deliver a new helicopter that provides essential improvement in the range, speed, communications capability and survivability necessary to efficiently and securely transport the president of the United States.

The fact that Davey was killed in a helicopter accident, not in a race car, didn't make it any less of a struggle,

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.

We called Refugio County for assistance and fortunately there was a DPS Task Force in the area with a helicopter available.

We would never know if his life would have been saved had he been able to take the helicopter flight director to the hospital.

There is a continued need for more helicopter capacity, to move in the inaccessible areas. The terrain here is very difficult and winter is approaching.

The play is funny. And people love baseball. But there's a moral lesson. 'Rounding Third' is particularly suitable for that part of the audience made up of young parents. We are a generation of helicopter parents, constantly hovering over our kids, fussing with them.

Fire crews are telling me that there is a helicopter on scene and they are telling me there is nothing they can do at this point but just let it burn. The good news is that there are not structures in the area.

You can land a helicopter at the North Pole, and within 10 seconds you're off position.

We go to a helicopter flying over New Orleans, where they're narrating what they see -- there are people trapped on a roof somewhere. Then we bring in Tom Forman, who used to be a reporter in New Orleans. We're looking at satellite maps of the city, comparing this with video feeds that come in, then we'll zoom in on Google Earth, see what's nearby -- a university, Lake Pontchartrain -- and all of this together delivers the story in a richer, more immediate way.

We saw the shots of the helicopter taking him in. And there he is. Couldn't be anybody else. Had to be him.

We are going to capture this re-entry capsule out of the air in a helicopter snatch. It will be very exciting thing to see.

Every dollar, euro, or yen committed today will save lives. Every helicopter provided will rescue the injured, among them hundreds of children. Every shelter erected will save a family from the ravages of winter.

Every dollar, euro, or yen committed today will save lives, ... Every helicopter provided will rescue the injured, among them hundreds of children. Every shelter erected will save a family from the ravages of winter.

Based on an initial review of the footage, it would seem to indicate the downing of a helicopter and the removal of crew and passengers from the craft.

As the small arms fire against the helicopter originated from an area controlled by the LTTE, the LTTE must bear responsibility.

Diamonds Are Forever was a really relaxed experience. I remember towards the end of the shooting, we were on that big thing in the sea, the oil rig, and I had to do a few last scenes before wrapping up. I told Sean, "You know, if I got them by the end of the morning, we could go golfing this afternoon." The scenes were in the can in time, so we took a helicopter directly to the Golf course!

The whole scene, it was basically a helicopter pilot's nightmare, because everything was basically wires or tower.

The tents were filled with uniformed war mannequins. The children and the soldiers took helicopter rides over Columbus. Various war organizations gathered an shared their stories about the war.

I used to train with my husband, Anthony Maina, but he is now too busy as a helicopter pilot, so we only run together when I do light jogging. I don't want to kill him before his next flight!

Some time late Thursday, we flew over the area in a helicopter using GPS and mapped it at 504 acres. It's still contained at 504 acres.

Once the high winds come, we cannot get in and get you out. We cannot get there by boat or helicopter or by plane. There are 61 shelters open. There is no reason for someone not to evacuate if they have been asked to do so.

They're talking about changing the (Louisiana) state song to helicopter blades flapping and a siren wailing, ... I'd imagine Baton Rouge is even worse to drive in now.

A lot of dock facilities that boats would leave from are gone. Hangars are messed up. Helicopter availability is tight.

There's a massive police staging area on Canal Street right by the casino, ... The 82nd Airborne is here in force. They're patrolling the city. There's a massive military staging area near the Convention Center by the I-10. The helicopter traffic is the most I've seen since I was stationed at Ft. Hood.

It quickly spread into a residential area. Luckily we had a helicopter that was stationed here. ... That was a very high priority fire, so they threw everything that they had at it really quickly.

It's pretty humbling when you have a guy sitting next to you, telling you about waiting on a roof to be picked up by a helicopter and a body floats by. You get to let them talk some of that out, ... It's been amazing to see the hope that's in their eyes, the appreciation of what's being done.

It sounds like a helicopter landing, so my neighbors must really love me. But there's nothing I can do a couple nights a year.

The nose on the helicopter hit the ground at an angle slightly less than vertical,

That made it very difficult for the rescuers but it also made it very bad for anyone who got out of that helicopter alive and stepped onto the minefield.

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It's an absolute elite group of people who end up going on helicopter ski vacation.

It was no problem. The helicopter is just another crazy way we get them around.

It took like three seconds until it was upside down. The helicopter went down so fast.

It was great. The helicopter came over - and then I was inside. The worst was over. They were just phenomenal.

It was just a very small helicopter operation with two aircraft.

The minister is safe. He had already left the airport by helicopter when the attack happened.

The corpsman put the wounded man in the helicopter and made a gesture.

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Clearly the flag was there, ... because the intercepts show that the helicopter pilots saw it immediately, before they ever even got up to the ship.

I don't think that any of our friends want to see a helicopter raid at midnight and rockets going in there without some sense of coordination and coalition building that I think is vital because then you have to ask the next question always: 'What happens next?'

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I can only remember one case this year where we weren't able to transport someone through helicopter because fog was a factor.

I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it.

You couldn't do this. You wouldn't be able to walk out, you'd probably had to get a helicopter to get you out.

All helicopter flights resumed this morning. They are back and trying to catch up by deploying all available helicopters to cover all routes as quickly as possible.

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.

The helicopter then continued in a forward roll such that the helicopter then landed firstly on its roof and then on its port (left) side.

The helicopter still had all of the police logos from the movie. So while the media was getting shooed away, we could fly anywhere we wanted.

The helicopter still had all of the police logos from the movie, ... So while the media was getting shooed away, we could fly anywhere we wanted.

The helicopter is a very potent business tool to shuttle mid-level folks to Wall Street, ... The biggest issue is the time that the client saves. If you're going from Manhattan to Washington, the fastest way to go is by helicopter.

The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of.

The helicopter came down hard and rolled over on its side and broke its blades off and broke its tail off.

The helicopter and the aerial drops that we've been doing have made a difference.

A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other.

The crowds are always larger when we play Andrew. I remember one game when a Channel 7 helicopter was flying over the field.

The first time I got out of the helicopter I fell into waist-deep snow. I had never been on anything but groomed slopes in my life.

The company's helicopter business isn't very big and so there should be little financial impact on the company.

The main points we stress throughout the training is a good, tight brace position and being able to breathe off of the intermediate passenger helicopter aircrew breathing device confidently.

I turned into the helicopter the red carpet was rolled up. The White House was behind us now.