Let’s take a closer look at the fixed-wing, and rotary-wing, aircraft in Coppola’s masterpiece. The most prominently featured aircraft in Apocalypse Now is the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, known as the “Huey.” ...

It has been nearly 50 years since Hutchinson native Lyle E. Mackedanz disappeared in Vietnam. While serving with the 17th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 16th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade as ...

The crash seems to have resulted from a series of human errors that cascaded to cause a freak accident. This past week has ...

The UH-60 Black Hawk was developed by the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in the late 1970s to replace the iconic, but aging, UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopters ... a four-bladed tail rotor keep ...

Given the variety and flexibility of the Black Hawk, dozens of nations have imported one variant or another for their own ...

Korea Aerospace Industries’ (KAI) new Marine Attack Helicopter, a derivative of the Super Puma inspired MUH-1 Marineon, ...

The NTSB said in an update Thursday evening that it is still searching for some parts of the helicopter, including the right engine and tail rotor. Officials said the wreckage is expected to be ...

An event by Bravo Company of the 12th Helicopter Battalion in January 2020. In the background we see a UH-60 like the one that crashed in Washington DC (Photo: 12th Aviation Battalion). The original ...

An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into ...

Its fleet of helicopters includes the Bell UH-1H Super Huey and the Sikorsky S-70i. As for the National Interagency Fire Center, they classify firefighting helicopters into Type 1, Type 2 ...

The UH-60A/L Black Hawk helicopter is a support chopper that replaced the Vietnam era UH-1 Huey. The UH-60A entered service with the 101st Combat Aviation brigade of the 101st Airborne Division ...