Urban heliports and commuter helicopters are no longer a dream of the future, but are in fact a reality. The Federal Aviation Administration must now accept this fact and change their thinking process from airports and airplanes to heliports and helicopters, due to this one difference: “An airplane lands and then stops, while a helicopter stops and then lands.”


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    Title :

    Heliports and Helicopters Where Have They Been and Are They Coming Back


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Air Transportation Meeting ; 1980



    Publication date :

    1980-04-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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