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A helicopter bucket or helibucket is a specialized bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting. The design of the buckets allows the helicopter to hover over a water source—such as a lake , river , pond , or tank —and lower the bucket into the water to refill it.
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The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and Washington state. The Chinook was originally designed by Vertol, which had begun work in 1957 on a new tandem-rotor helicopter, designated as the Vertol Model 107 or V-107.
Single-rotor helicopters need a mechanism to neutralize the yawing movement produced by the single large rotor. This is commonly accomplished by a tail rotor, coaxial rotors, and the NOTAR systems. Tandem-rotor helicopters, however, use counter-rotating rotors, with each cancelling out the other's torque.
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The CH-47 U.S. Army Chinook with Richie’s face painted on its tail is now flying through Western North Carolina to deliver food and water. ... NC community stand near the landing zone for ...
A sketch of the legendary singer Lionel Richie adorns the tail of a National Guard helicopter tasked with bringing aid to flood victims in North Carolina ... Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters land ...
The department will replace its 1966 UH-1H 'Super Hueys' with two new Sikorsky S70M Firehawks, it announced.