On March 15, 1967, the Sikorsky MH-53 first flew. The heavy helicopter later became the USAF's Pave Low platform for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You likely never heard of the northwest Wisconsin organization devoted to preserving helicopters and spotlighting the stories of ...

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, ...

The famed Wright brothers made history in December 1903 with their inaugural flight at Kitty Hawk. Just over six decades later, our understanding of flight advanced so far that Yuri Gagarin became the ...

The 10 best Helicopters & Rotorcraft of the Second World War ...

Today it is just a dream, but 50 years ago it was a reality courtesy of SFO Helicopter Airlines. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Oakland-based company operated a fleet of passenger helicopters ...

The Helicopter Conservancy is located in New Richmond. Its mission is to preserve aircraft, put helicopters in historic perspective. The nonprofit group also collects and preserves stories of the ...