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How Things Work: Ground Resonance
When is a helicopter like a Patsy Cline song? When it falls to pieces.
January 2009 |
By Peter Garrison
Air America's Black Helicopter
The secret aircraft that helped the CIA tap phones in North Vietnam.
March 2008 |
By James R. Chiles
Above & Beyond: Milk Run
How a milk run from an aircraft carrier nearly killed me.
May 2007 |
By Chris McKenna
A & S Interview: Frank Robinson
The world's most prolific builder of civilian helicopters.
March 2007 |
By Mark Huber
Commentary: Thank You For Not Flying
Helicopter ambulances could be hazardous
to your health.
July 2006 |
By Bryan E. Bledsoe M.D.
We Haul It All
For armored vehicles, fossilized pachyderms, and other oversize loads, your best bet is the Russian Mi-26 helicopter.
July 2006 |
By John Croft
Rotary Club
In the populous acreage of an aircraft carrier, the corner occupied by helo pilots is small, scrappy, and loud.
January 2006 |
By Carl Hoffman
Through Darkest Iraq with Gun and Cobra
A month of war through the night-vision goggles of a Marine AH-1W SuperCobra pilot.
January 2004 |
By Story and photographs by James Cox
Air(show) Assault
With a Caribou, Mohawk, Bird Dog, Hueys, and Cobras, Army aviators are teaching the loudest history lesson you ever heard.
November 2003 |
By Shelby G. Spires
Defining Moments
The inventions, institutions, gadgets, and lucky breaks that have shaped the story of the airplane.
March 2003 |
By Roger Bilstein
Dog of War
Think of Yankee Lima Four Two as a time machine: Jump in and you're back in Vietnam.
July 2001 |
By Stephan Wilkinson
High Tension
Helicopter pilots play chicken with high-voltage power lines so crews can work on live wires.
March 2001 |
By James R. Chiles
Memories of Kosovo
A helicopter pilot recalls his peacekeeping tour of duty over one of the world's most strife-torn regions.
January 2001 |
By Jonathan Knaul
Too Ugly to Print in a Magazine
Four aircraft so ugly they could only be published on the web...
June 1997 |
By Air & Space staff
