Word: choppered
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...Black Hawk Down CRITICISM It used real aircraft, but the film cut the number of men defending the chopper and put names on the helmets?a practice discontinued years ago. Somali casualties remain nameless. RESPONSE Director Ridley Scott was worried that the audience would lose track of the characters. No comment from the studio about the portrayal of Somalis...
...farmers in the 10 candidate countries only a quarter of the payments made to existing member states. Entrants would have to wait up to a decade to receive similar amounts. But the proposals, yet to be debated, provide for $35 billion in direct aid, rather than production subsidies. CHECHNYA Choppers Down Russian forces in Chechnya lost two Mi-8 helicopters within two days. The first exploded and crashed, killing 14, including General Mikhail Rudchenko, Deputy Interior Minister in charge of the North Caucasus, General Nikolai Garidov, commander of the interior troops in Chechnya, and three colonels. Conflicting versions emerged about...
CRITICISM It used real aircraft, but the film cut the number of men defending the chopper and put names on the helmets, a practice discontinued years ago. Somali casualties remain nameless...
...force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine, so as to attract heat-seeking missiles away from the chopper...
...force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine, so as to attract heat-seeking missiles away from the chopper...