Recently a friend asked me why the police helicopter was constantly circling over his house in the middle of the night. He asked why they didn't just fly back and forth or hover up high. As a chopper...
Category: General Aviation
We have all been sat there on the plane getting ready for everyone else to find their seat and the refueling truck pulls up and starts to pump fuel into the wing of the aircraft. We have all heard of...
We have all seen the footage of criminals trying to outrun the police helicopter and it is very, very rare that they get away, but yet cars travel so much faster than helicopters or do they? The...
I still remember the first time I got to fly in a small aircraft and I was stunned just how close all the towns were that I had been driving around for years. What took an hour to go from one town to...
This was a question I remember asking my dad when I saw my first helicopter at an airshow. A Bell 47 was sitting next to a Westland Wessex helicopter that had wheels, so I asked my dad why the Bell...
If you have traveled a lot you will have been on aircraft piloted by two pilots and some that only have one pilot, so why can some be flown by just one pilot? Some of the reasons like safety may be...