Today was awesome': Orleans BOCES students refurbishing Vietnam War-era helicopter It has special significance. A pilot from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tommy Sandefur, was killed flying the helicopter.

As a Huey helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, Rich White has both proud ... Our seats are armored and we wear ballistic helmets, which can stop a small round. But I start crouching down ...

Coast Guard helicopter pilots train. It is therefore fitting that there is also a place set aside to honor those who have seen combat and remember the wars fought to protect and preserve American ...

The park was started by the private efforts of the Vietnam Vets of ... on what a minuteman of that era would favor," the ArtVenture Pensacola website said. The helicopter above the Wall South ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

A volunteer crew of pilots and mechanics maintains a fleet of three Vietnam War-era Bell UH-1H Huey helicopters and three Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopters. Volunteers offer hangar tours on Tuesdays ...

An event he seldom misses is the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot Association’s annual reunion, where he gets a chance to rendezvous with some of his classmates from flight school. The banquet is held ...

in the central highlands of Vietnam during one of the toughest years of the war. Gerontis was steered into helicopter training soon after he was drafted, and found himself promoted to aircraft ...

McCluskey (Armor, 120th Avn Co) distinguished himself on 23 April 1967, while serving as a pilot ... Republic of Vietnam. After six months, he was "infused" to the 120th Assault Helicopter Company ...

Such devotion was costly, and of the 52 helicopter pilots in Barrett’s medevac unit, nearly half were killed or wounded during their tour in Vietnam. Barrett said it was a privilege to be in a ...