helijet

English

Etymology

From heli- +‎ jet.

Noun

helijet (plural helijets)

1. (science fiction) A flying vehicle resembling a helicopter and/or a jet.
   • 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow:

     Tomiko waited less than an hour, then flew with Harfex to the area where Osden had reported himself the night before. But as the helijet hovered over the sea of purplish leaves, illimitable, impenetrable, she felt a panic despair.

   • 2001, Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, page 20:

     Suddenly there was a glare of fight and the sound of an explosion from one of the other helijets, the one carrying Blare Oblomot. Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.

   • 2002, Moss Tosney, The Ten Percent Man, page 572:

     The two men heard a sound from above, and looked up to see three police helijets hovering overhead.