heliport

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Recent Examples of heliport This drone pilot program’s start date was pushed back in part because another experimental aviation tech, an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, was demo-ing its own first-of-its-kind flights out of the same heliport. — Aarian Marshall, Wired News, 10 May 2026 That's faster than the five-seater Joby Aviation flew between JFK Airport and New York City's heliport network (200 mph or 322 km/h) as part of an air taxi demo last week. — New Atlas, 4 May 2026 The goal is to connect existing heliports in Lower and Midtown Manhattan to JFK International Airport in less than 10 minutes instead of the one-to two-hour drive. — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 2026 Prince Albert and Princess Charlene met Leo at the Monaco heliport, just down the coast from the marina that is home to the megayachts of the rich and famous. — Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for heliport
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  1. helipad
  2. airport
  3. airfield
  4. air base
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  • The cover photo shows Trump standing on the new White House helipad.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • One resident of the Icon warned commissioners that promises made by Griffin could change once the helipad is built.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of helipad
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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
Noun
  • 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
Definition of air base

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