John nearly lost his life while serving in Vietnam when he was shot at by enemy fire. The bullet ricocheted off the top of ...
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.
The H-60, coated with fresh blue and gold paint, honors Cmdr. Clyde Lassen, the late Naval Aviator and Medal of Honor ...
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 ...
From an aviation standpoint, that’s where you have to start separating it.” By that point, helicopter pilots had been dropping water on the flames for about nine hours, but were fighting a ...
Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing during the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced ...
Lt. Col. Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission when his plane disappeared in a fireball. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP) ...