Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emergency responders enter the water after a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, 10 April ...

Helicopters have their roots in the pre-World War II era. Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci famously conceptualized his aerial screw as far back as the 15th century, though the inventor never built ...

Sometime in the mid-1980s, a former chief pilot of the Lakewood (Calif.) Sheriff’s Station helicopter patrol program informed me of the perversity of helicopters. A plane with wings, he said, ...

Dozens have died in accidents since helicopters were allowed in the city in 1949. Residents have complained for nearly as long, but reforms rarely stick. By Stefanos Chen The helicopter has been a ...