The Bell AH-1 Cobra is an attack helicopter that was developed from ... and a tandem cockpit enclosed in a canopy—clearly drawing inspiration from a fighter’s airframe. The cockpit arrangement ...

As mighty a force as the SuperCobra was, time and the relentless march of technology waits for no attack helicopter. As the SuperCobra was an advanced take on the Cobra, so the SuperCobra would be ...

The oldest attack helicopter ever fielded by the U.S. military is also the first attack helicopter: The Bell AH-1 Cobra, which first entered service in 1967. Born out of the Vietnam War, the AH-1 ...

He turned on the Cobra’s lights to draw fire away from the recon unit ... flying some of the first Cobra attack helicopters in the war. He finished his military service in 1971 as a captain ...

Taylor, flying one of two AH-1G Cobra helicopters, reached the battlefield ... to the enemy and did all the maneuvers of an attack run to draw their fire. Not knowing the helicopter was out ...

On the night of June 18, 1968, then-1st Lt. Taylor flew his Cobra attack helicopter to rescue the men after they had become surrounded by the enemy. "It was pitch black. No moon. No stars.