Rotorcraft
HAI Salute to Excellence Golden Hour Reward: NSW Ambulance
New South Wales Ambulance Service is the HAI Golden Hour Reward recipient.
NSW Ambulance
NSW Ambulance

Air medical helicopters have come a long way since Jan. 5, 1945, when a Bell 47 prototype carried a doctor to an injured test pilot who was stranded at a snowbound farm near Lockport, New York after he had bailed out of a P-59 Airacomet when its tail section exploded. MASH units during the Korean War later established the life-saving potential of helicopter medevacs, and veteran helicopter pilots of the Vietnam War era often found flying jobs in nascent civilian airmed operations.