Over 60 years ago, Bell Helicopter transformed the UH-1 Huey into the AH-1 Cobra, creating the first helicopter designed specifically for combat. From its secretive development in the 1960s to the ...
Fixed-wing aviation began earlier, and progressed more quickly, than rotary-wing aviation. Fixed-wing aviation is generally understood to have started with the Wright Brothers, at Kitty Hawk, North ...
Sept. 30, 2025 marks 50 years since the first YAH-64A prototype took to the skies for the first time. Let’s look at how the Apache has maintained its sharp edge over those five decades. Born from the ...
The hard-working, multi-role Piasecki H-21 helicopter, known as the "Flying Banana," was the brainchild of Frank Piasecki, who founded the P-V Engineering Forum alongside his college buddy, Harold ...
Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75 and 94 wounded American soldiers from the Philippine jungles while under ...
The Huey’s designated successor, the MH-139A Grey Wolf, has suffered from delays and cost overruns and is not yet prepared to ...
Authorities have identified two pilots who died after their helicopters collided midair in southern New Jersey ...
Michael Greenberg, 71, and Kenneth Kirsch, 65, were flying helicopters together in Hammonton Township when they crashed, police said.
According to NBC News, one of the choppers has the tail number N280MG, and the registered owner's name is M&M Charter, LLC. M ...