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helipad

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as in heliport

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Recent Examples of helipad My morning coffee tasted so much better without the news about the helipad accompanied by a photo and the mumblings of a grinning Trump. — Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 Trump has readied a helipad on the White House South Lawn before Xi’s arrival and has lamented that his ballroom will not be ready to host the Chinese leader. — Josh Boak, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026 Trump said last week that workers finished construction of a helipad on the South Lawn. — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Trump requested changes to the helipad last month after expressing dissatisfaction with the project. — Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for helipad

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Flight tracking data show the helicopter left Catalina’s Pebbly Beach heliport and got about 175 feet above sea level about eight seconds into its flight before rapidly descending.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
The two-acre facility, owned by the city and operated by Downtown Skyport, is the busiest commercial heliport in the world, hosting up to 200 flights a day.

— Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026

Definition of heliport

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The service is intended to provide a more streamlined travel experience, including access to private terminals rather than crowded commercial airport facilities.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster.

— Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of airport

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The runway remained closed while authorities evaluated the airplane and determined how to recover and remove it from the airfield, Wright said.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Armed British police stopped the men near the Gloucestershire airfield and detained them on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of airfield

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The 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts close to the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were arrested in the early hours of Sunday on suspicion of explosives and terror offenses close to the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran.

— JILL LAWLESS, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

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