Sometime in the mid-1980s, a former chief pilot of the Lakewood (Calif.) Sheriff’s Station helicopter patrol program informed me of the perversity of helicopters. A plane with wings, he said, ...

A typhoon brought record-high water to two low-lying Alaska Native communities and washed away homes, some with people inside ...

Issued also in electronic format. Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In 1945, following years as an instructor, Carl Agar was honourably discharged from the British and ...

You likely never heard of the northwest Wisconsin organization devoted to preserving helicopters and spotlighting the stories of the people who flew them. The Helicopter Conservancy, located in a ...

At least 38 people have died in helicopter accidents in New York City since 1977, when an accident on a skyscraper landing pad led the city to start putting restrictions on where choppers could land.

Thursday’s horrifying tourist helicopter crash into the Hudson River that killed six people was one of several deadly tragedies involving choppers in New York City. At least 32 people have died in ...