The helicopter is the most prominently featured aircraft in Apocalypse Now, but the aircraft tied to the film’s famous bit of dialogue is the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. Advertisement cookies are ...

Charles “Chuck” Stephen Haeflinger, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and active member of the Chino Hills community, died on Feb ...

Vietnam hero Capt. Curtis Wayne Fitzgerald I, 77, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 4. Services for Fitzgerald, under the direction of Herrington/Land of Memory Funeral Home, are set for 1 p.m. Friday, Feb.

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Conrad Blasco Stergas was born on October 7, 1942 in Gloversville, New York, the son of Blasco and Eoo Stergas, and was ...

The Black Hawk helicopter has been in service since 1979, but what makes it so special, that 36 countries use it? Here's ...

Lockheed’s Flying CARR made this concept a reality.” The notion of a fixed-wing airplane that can turn into a rotary-wing ...

This feature, by the way, would ensure that the MiG-21s were the bane of most U.S. warplane pilots’ existence throughout the Vietnam War (U.S. warplanes routinely fought the Soviet-provided MiG- ...

From an aviation standpoint, that’s where you have to start separating it.” By that point, helicopter pilots had been dropping water on the flames for about nine hours, but were fighting a ...