Helicopters have their roots in the pre-World War II era. Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci famously conceptualized his aerial screw as far back as the 15th century, though the inventor never built ...

For about 76 years, helicopters have served the world as an important alternative to fixed-wing aircraft. Helicopters can go places and do things that airplanes cannot, like save mariners stuck at sea ...

British aviation history has been made with the UK’s first truly autonomous helicopter completing its maiden flight, ...

The famed Wright brothers made history in December 1903 with their inaugural flight at Kitty Hawk. Just over six decades later, our understanding of flight advanced so far that Yuri Gagarin became the ...

Sometime in the mid-1980s, a former chief pilot of the Lakewood (Calif.) Sheriff’s Station helicopter patrol program informed me of the perversity of helicopters. A plane with wings, he said, ...