The flight path showed the helicopter taking off from a heliport on the southeastern tip of Manhattan, then flying up the Hudson River, getting up to an altitude of about 1,100 feet, and turning ...

The reason helicopters can hover, take off, and fly in any direction is because ... and subjecting such an intricate system to continuous motion and fluctuating aerodynamic loads increases ...

Reagan National airport has been in the spotlight ever since the catastrophic crash of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a regional passenger jet killed 67 people in January and set off a wave of ...

A helicopter has crashed just minutes after taking off with one person rushed to hospital. The pilot and passenger were treated by ambulance crews for minor injuries, with one person taken to The ...

An Army Black Hawk helicopter caused two near-misses with ... as they approached Reagan National Airport — that is, break off their landings, circle back and try again. The trouble came in ...

After certificating a full-mission autopilot for the Airbus Helicopters AS350 light-single helicopter, French avionics manufacturer Thales leased one of the rotorcraft and converted it into a test ...

(AP) — Three Montana Army National Guard members face trespassing charges after authorities said they landed a Black Hawk helicopter in a mountain pasture on a private ranch to take several elk ...