Tag: helicopter

August 12, 2019

OF ALL THE outrageously overengineered machines James Bond has commanded over the decades, perhaps the strangest came in 1967’s You Only Live Twice, when 007 climbed into an aircraft that his friend Tiger Tanaka—and likely the audience—dismissed as “a toy […]

July 19, 2019

COMPARED TO MANY a warbird, the Air Force’s newest helicopter seems positively peaceful. It carries no Hydra rockets or Hellfire missiles, just a pair of .50 caliber machine guns—you can’t float about totally unarmed, after all. That’s because this chopper […]

June 27, 2017

EMERGENCY WORKERS AND the obscenely rich love helicopters, and for good reason. Unlike airplanes, whirlybirds can take off and land almost anywhere, making them just the thing for tight spots and urban areas. The drawback, though, is speed. Choppers are […]