Every professional military force utilizes helicopters to save or take lives, transport materiel or move people in battle. In honor of helicopters' enormous impact, we explore 12 of the most iconic ...

A fatal crash Thursday became the latest incident in a long history of helicopter wrecks in the New York City area. The latest crash occurred in the Hudson River near the West Side Highway and Spring ...

These 7 battlefield helicopters changed military mobility, from the Sikorsky R 4 and Bell H 13 to the H 34, Huey, Chinook, Mi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helicopter crash in New York (Reuters) - A tourist helicopter crashed in New York's Hudson River off lower Manhattan on Thursday ...

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 development of practical helicopters required decades of experimentation, failure, and technological risk. One of the ...