(Tribune News Service) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut has spoken out against claims that his famous 1972 photo ...
John nearly lost his life while serving in Vietnam when he was shot at by enemy fire. The bullet ricocheted off the top of ...
The helicopter is the most prominently featured aircraft in Apocalypse Now, but the aircraft tied to the film’s famous bit of dialogue is the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. Advertisement cookies are ...
Charles “Chuck” Stephen Haeflinger, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and active member of the Chino Hills community, died on Feb ...
The Black Hawk helicopter has been in service since 1979, but what makes it so special, that 36 countries use it? Here's everything you need to know.
Flight tracking sites show the plane flew roughly 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the helicopter, a normally acceptable separation. Airline pilots are trained to respond immediately to resolution ...
Less than 30 seconds before the collision, a controller asked the helicopter pilot if he could see the plane. The controller made another call to the helicopter just moments later, saying: "PAT 25 ...
The H-60, coated with fresh blue and gold paint, honors Cmdr. Clyde Lassen, the late Naval Aviator and Medal of Honor recipient.
Between them, Vietnam and VietJet employ thousands of pilots, locally and from overseas. Vietnam Airlines has a fleet of 93 aircraft, with a century not being too far away. They fly to 66 destinations ...
(Soviet pilots were also used, and simply sheep-dipped in North Vietnamese uniforms to mask the USSR’s direct involvement in the Vietnam War.) Yet American pilots reported a relatively high kill ...