A Robinson R44 with two people on board crashed around 7 pm local time in the Dominican Republic Thursday. Both were killed in what is being reported as an aid flight related to the well known earthquake in Haiti. The helicopter was traveling from Port-au-Prince to Santiago at the time. Articles are saying there wasn’t [...]
Santa Barbara County’s Fire Department did a mock rescue drill yesterday on the coast near Highway 101. The scenario involved an individual that fell 150 feet down a cliff to the ocean below. Officials on scene determined the best route to take would be to do a helicopter rescue rather than setup a complex rope [...]
In 2005, Albania retired all of the airplanes from their Air Force and are now shifting focus to helicopters. The reasoning being that they are far better suited for their operational environment. According to wikipedia, they have nearly 50 helicopters of various models currently in use. The most of any one type is the BO-105 [...]
