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Economical, practical, environmentally friendly supersonic flight is the next big thing in commercial aviation.

Less than two weeks after the July 16 crash of a Bristow Sikorsky S-76A+ (G-BJVX) that killed all 11 passengers and crew when the helicopter apparently los

With little fanfare and a lot of crossed fingers, flight test of the embattled Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey resumed in the final days of May at the U.S.

In the aeronautical mountain range, a few peaks are still unclimbed.

By mid-June the national wildfire situation was speeding past all-time record proportions in nearly every category.

The inexorable “bigger is better” economic logic of consolidation that has reshaped much of the fixed-wing side of aviation is now beginning to emerge in t

The opening of a public-use heliport isn’t as rare as, say, the passage of a really visible comet, or a Mets victory in a World Series.

Anti-noise Advocates Lose Grand Teton AppealA federal appeals court has dismissed a bid by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Wilderness S

It seems summer is the time of year for somnolent helicopter programs to wake up and stretch their rotors toward the sun…and certification.

In the peek-a-boo world of Russian rotorcrafting (now you see the program, now you don’t), plans have been announced to finally go ahead with the Kamov Ka-

Attempting to rescue injured climbers on Oregon’s highest peak in an accident that left three dead, a Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk search-and-rescue Black Haw

For aviators and their passengers, oxygen means life at the high altitudes traversed by modern aircraft.

Traditionally, helicopters have been used to rescue people who, for varied reasons, have become unwillingly isolated from their fellow man.

It came as suddenly as a northern Michigan blizzard.

The New Jersey State Police (NJSP) aviation unit this spring reached a milestone of successfully flying 25,000 accident-free medevac flights since the prog

Bringing to reality a deal announced at Heli-Expo last year, Shanghai Sikorsky Aircraft Co.

The pilots of Dallas-based CareFlite have approved a new contract including a pay hike, ending more than a year of work (and grueling negotiations) without

Erlanger Medical Center’s Life Force aeromed rescue service has become the first in the U.S.

Bristow Helicopters is suing Sikorsky and its parent company, United Technologies, for negligence over a crash in which a Sikorsky S-76A plunged into the N

The Helicopter Association International has approached Congress advocating a significant improvement in the low-altitude air-traffic infrastructure in the

In the late winter of 1923, these 12 men were most of the workforce of the fledgling Sikorsky Aircraft.

If all flights took place in flawless conditions, in ideal weather and with perfectly designed aircraft that are maintained to impossibly impeccable standa

Asked to visualize an environmentally “green” helicopter, most of us would think of a rotorcraft that was quiet.

Jimmie Leroy Shriver, 53, of Summersville, Miss., was sentenced by U.S.

As first presented to the public, the Bush Administration appeared ready, willing and able to open the homeland defense purse strings to allow first respon

Commercial aeromed helicopter operators are claiming that Maryland state officials are overstepping their authority in a bid to impose additional rules res

Helicopter services firm CHC Helicopter has stated that third-quarter profit rose nearly 40 percent as higher contract rates and lower interest costs offse

File this one under the heading “what were they thinking?” The U.S.

Ending a roughly one-year tenure as president and CEO of Enstrom Helicopters, and just a few weeks after HAI’s Heli-Expo show where he sketched a bold new

“Environmentally sensitive logging.” It’s a phrase that seems almost a contradiction in terms.