May 31—The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a helicopter’s hard landing this morning in Kailua-Kona. According to the FAA’s preliminary report, a Robinson R22 helicopter made a hard landing at about 8:45 a.m. near Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport. The FAA says two people were on board the helicopter. The helicopter’s registration number is N333PJ, […]
MONROE COUNTY — ITC Holdings Corp., an independent electricity transmission company based in Novi, is conducting aerial patrols of high-voltage transmission lines in several counties, including Monroe County, through May 31, and again June 11-14. “The helicopters will be flying lower than usual near the transmission lines during these inspections, which is no cause for […]
Gif: Airbus / YouTube Airbus flew its strange helicopter-airplane hybrid called Racer for the first time in Marseille, France on Monday. The aerospace manufacturer categorizes the aircraft as a high-speed compound helicopter demonstrator. Unlike conventional helicopters, the Racer features fixed wings with control surfaces and propulsive propellers. The maiden flight was only 30 minutes long […]
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles, left, speaks alongside Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong during an Australia and South Korea Foreign and Defence Ministers meeting in Melbourne, Australia, on May 1, 2024. Australia has protested to Beijing that a Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian navy helicopter with flares in international waters, […]
The US has spent $5 billion on a fleet of new helicopters to transport the president. But the VH-92 continues to scorch the White House lawn, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. This years-long problem has sidelined the helicopters from carrying Biden for now. The new Marine One helicopters, part of a program that the US spent $5 billion […]
Ten people have died after two navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a military rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade. One of the choppers clipped the rotor of the other before the two crashed into the ground, footage published on local media show. The incident took place at 09:30 local time (02:30 BST) in […]
Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board, the navy said. The helicopters were rehearsing at a naval base in northern Perak state for the navy’s 90th anniversary celebration next month when the accident occurred, the navy said in a brief statement. “All victims […]
LONGMONT, Colo. (KDVR) — Multiple state agencies took to the sky Sunday morning, learning how to fight wildfires from up above. The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control teams up with the Colorado National Guard and a couple of local fire departments every year to make this training happen. Brendan Young, an instructor pilot […]
Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during a night-time training flight after possibly colliding with each other, the country’s defence minister said on Sunday. One crew member who was recovered from the water was later pronounced dead, while rescuers were searching for seven others who […]
TOKYO (AP) — Two Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force helicopters carrying eight crewmembers were believed to have crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during night-time training, Japan’s defense minister said. The two SH-60K reconnaissance choppers, carrying four crew each, lost contact late Saturday near Torishima island in the Pacific about 600 kilometers (370 […]
NASA’s history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows. The video, which was released on Thursday (April 18) by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), shows where Ingenuity went on each of its 72 Red Planet sorties, linking each flight line together in an […]
Houthi attack drones have mostly been intercepted by US and allied warships in the Red Sea. Air-to-air combat has been much less common, but last month, a French helicopter shot down a drone. A former US naval aviator said the engagement is not necessarily surprising. The Houthis have launched a lot of deadly threats into […]