Throughout the history of aviation, certain designs have emerged which have become icons within popular culture. One such ...

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 ...

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

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.

Bell enjoys high market share and a captive ... The rest comes primarily from refitting variants of the older UH-1 "Huey" helicopters. Intangible assets in defense primarily come from technical ...

Everyone on the ground at Katsura base hears the distinctive sound of the Huey as it makes its approach to the field - the helicopter is a ... Subaru and Bell. Beginning with the design of Bell’s ...

Vietnamese and American troops conduct a combined patrol in the Mekong Delta on on April 8, 1967. (Horst Faas/AP) The dulcet sounds of Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” could be heard around ...

Bell Helicopter gained fame for designing the UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) during the Vietnam War and continues to produce helicopters today. Following Lawrence Bell's death in 1956, the company faced ...

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 ...