Industry body Oil and Gas UK also indicated it was too early to say when full offshore helicopter operations could be reintroduced.
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The Royal Navy's largest ship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, is moored in the Thames off Greenwich, where it will be a base for helicopter operations and house troops providing security at the Greenwich Park Olympic venue.
The Royal Navy's largest ship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, is now moored in the Thames off Greenwich, where it will act as a base for helicopter operations and house 400 troops providing security at the Greenwich Park Olympic venue.
"An inversion layer is keeping the smoke close to the ground, limiting visibility and reducing helicopter air operations, " Berry said.
Helicopter and ground operations aimed at taking hold of "key terrain" began early Friday, said Maj.
The project is just in its feasibility stage at the moment, but the charity said a permanent new home for the helicopter would help safeguard the operations of the air ambulance, and provide a sustainable home for the helicopter in the future.
The Center for Security Policy welcomed the Defense Acquisition Board's long-awaited decision Wednesday to approve full-rate production of the V-22 Osprey, the Marine Corps-Special Operations hybrid helicopter-airplane that will support the sorts of missions the United States military will have to undertake in the 21st Century.
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The Merseyside Police helicopter could be scrapped under plans to merge regional operations and establish a National Police Air Service (NPAS).
The office is also in charge of the White House Communications Agency, which handles all presidential telephone, radio, and digital communications, as well as airlift operations through both fixed-wing and helicopter aircraft.
It has experience in complex fields, such as identifiers for drugs which can reach down to the individual bottles, for defense operations where its bar codes ensure the right helicopter blades get to the right bases in Afghanistan, and in agriculture where its identifiers can be used to track contaminated produce back to the producer, plant and individual field.
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Squadrons from the Lynx and Commando helicopter forces are based there, when they are not on operations in places such as Afghanistan and the Caribbean.
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South Korea's and Japan's new helicopter carriers could also one day be useful for moving troops in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Search and rescue operations are continuing for livestock missing in remote areas, and a military helicopter delivered emergency food supplies to stranded animals for a second day.
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They did so in the conviction that this extraordinary technology can and must be brought to bear so that untold thousands of their countrymen can perform dangerous combat, search and rescue, special operations and other missions in the future in greater safety and with greater likelihood of success than with helicopter alternatives.
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