Photo courtesy of Bob Ford | Special to News-Press NOW A Vietnam-era Cobra helicopter is shown on display at the Kansas National Guard Museum in Topeka, Kansas. Photo courtesy of Bob Ford | Special to ...
MINERAL WELLS, TX (FOX 44) — Let’s step back in time to Fort Wolters, the launchpad where over 40,000 helicopter pilots learned to fly during the Vietnam War. One of the pilots who trained there, and ...
The AH-56 Cheyenne was Lockheed’s revolutionary attempt to build a high-speed, long-range attack helicopter for the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Combining a pusher propeller, rigid rotor, and jet ...
You might hear sounds from the past over the Kansas City metro this week.A Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 helicopter, better known by its nickname, Huey, is offering rides and history lessons to the public in ...
On a mild, picture-perfect autumn morning in west Little Rock, a Huey helicopter's skids cleared the ground, and she slowly rose skyward. Bystanders stood in rapt attention to see the massive rotors ...
Gross joined the army in November 1968 at age 18 to fly helicopters, believing the Vietnam War would be over by the time he completed his flight training. It wasn't. He put in a year in the war zone, ...