1.   The agreements were a response to the Gulf crisis and the consequent use of Djibouti as a training ground for French helicopter crews.

2.   Topics discussed included a Lebanese request for a supply of French military helicopters.

3.   One British crewman on a French helicopter described the moment he realised he was too late to save a young child.

4.   The agreement, signed at a French helicopter base not far from the border of Kosovo, was immediately approved by NATO leaders meeting in Brussels.

5.   The Grand Prairie, Texas, firm supplies aircraft electronics, paint and interiors to Aerospatiale, a French helicopter manufacturer.

6.   The talks are being held in a hangar in the center of a muddy French helicopter base in northeastern Macedonia.

7.   A French helicopter evacuated the body to the Mostar airport from where it was to be flown to Spain on Friday.

8.   A French helicopter flew low over the city throughout the day.

9.   A French helicopter patrolled overhead.

10.   A French helicopter patrolled the skies over the capital.