82 years ago today, a U.S. Coast Guard pilot flew history’s first helicopter rescue mission. On January 3, 1944, Coast Guard Pilot Frank Erickson flew straight into the teeth of a raging storm to ...
The idea of the helicopter dates back to the Renaissance—but the contraptions could not be built until the development of modern aerospace engineering during the interwar period. Few platforms in ...
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