Why do helicopters not move when stationary?

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Why when the earth is rotating beneath them it stays in the same place?

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Because the helicopter isn’t high enough to be outside of the earth’s atmosphere. If it was higher, that would indeed happen.

Which is why we see video of the earth moving under the International Space Station, say. But why, if you stand on the front seat of a moving bus and jump up, you won’t land on the seat behind.

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