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Did You Know?
A helicopter, sometimes referred to in slang as a “chopper” or “helo”, is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally-spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally.