All of these use the same concept of a spinning rotor; what differentiates a helicopter in particular ... such as the 60-year-old CH-47 Chinook. The tail rotor blades can pitch up and down to ...

The helicopter trips were first reported by Politico. Shepherdstown is about 72 miles from Washington — less than a two-hour drive — while the Yorktown battlefield is about 160 miles away ...

Christopher Ward, the police chief of the region, told the outlet that the helicopter was heading to Wings Field, its base—only two miles away from the crash site. Police discovered the tail rotor ...

But for those who served in Vietnam, Huey helicopter pilots and their ... bullets had hit the blades, tail boom and tail rotor drive shaft and narrowly missed one of the door gunners.

Credit: DVIDS. Sikorsky’s CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter will support US Marine Corps (USMC) missions as the United States pivot towards the Indo-Pacific theatre, where capabilities will ...