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A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft would usually not be able to take off or land.
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Can a helicopter stand on the ground upside down on its rotor head?
In short, can a helicopter do something like this?
I found source of this GIF image: Escape to Witch Mountain (1975). This scene is around the 1h 19m mark. … In the scene with humans and the Australian helicopter, a trained eye can spot the lack of a "green screen effect" (it's a 40-year-old movie!) so it seems this Hughes 500 was really put upside down! …
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