Tag: HELICOPTERS

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 […]

July 19, 2018

IN THE EARLY hours of January 11, 2000, US Coast Guard helicopter pilot Mark Ward responded to a distress call from a ship taking on water, caught in a Nor’easter off the North Carolina coast. Battling 70-mph winds and 30-foot […]