The Bell 47 helicopter is the first to see widespread ... The distinctive bubble canopy gave pilots serious visibility. A 200 hp Franklin engine provided a cruising speed of 85 mph and the craft ...

On April 3, 1946, the Bell Model 47 made history as the first commercially certified helicopter. Piloted by Edward F. Hensley ...

Helicopter maker Bell will propose a purpose-built instrument flight rules (IFR) 505 Jet Ranger X as a potential replacement for the Lakota training helo ...

Technological advancements made the development of these engines possible -- and forever changed the way outside observers ...

Notably, the United States military embraced the helicopter as a key platform for ... often tethered to the underside of the twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook or deployed via parachute from a plane.

Midway had no radio contact with many of the choppers coming in, and while communication was working with the Air Force HH-53s, a stream of Bell UH ... to get the aircraft’s engine started ...

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We’ve been learning about Karl Porisch’s Vietnam service, piloting Marine CH-46 helicopters out of Marble Mountain Airfield south of Danang. He recalled that night medevac missions were challenging ...

The task to KBR is to research, develop recommendations to increase availability, improve reliability, and reduce support costs for the CH-47 Chinook helicopter. CH-47 is used for troop and cargo ...

Pentagon documentation suggests the Lakota is the safest training helicopter the Army has ever used at Fort Novosel.