Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lt. John Kelvin Koelsch (Navy) First used by the 1st Air Commando in World War II, the Sikorsky R-4 often fell short of its role ...

Since the war, the pair of old friends had traded in the jungles of Vietnam for Bud Field Aviation in Hayward where the chopper makes its home in the corner of a vast hangar filled with private planes ...

The Lady Bell, a Vietnam War-era UH-1B Iroquois “Huey” helicopter, has been perched on a pedestal at the southwest corner at the Vancouver VA Medical Center campus since 2008 as a tribute to military ...

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 ...

Helicopters have few ways to fight back against incoming fighter aircraft. Surprisingly, though, it is far harder to shoot down a helicopter from a plane than one might imagine. Fighters against ...

Russia’s heavy rotorcraft casualties in the early part of the Ukraine war stem from outdated tactics and poor planning, argues Bell executive and former US Army general Jeffrey Schloesser, and do not ...

First used by the 1st Air Commando in World War II, the Sikorsky R-4 often fell short of its role in rescuing airmen downed in the mountains and rainforests of the China-Burma-India front but as the ...