WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A Kansas veteran who flew Army helicopters in Vietnam transported troops and trained pilots during his year overseas. Pratt native Greg Lesh joined the Army in 1969 after ...
Over a single 12-month tour, Paden logged 1,800 flight hours as a door gunner, crew chief and flight engineer on one of Vietnam's most indispensable and vulnerable aircraft, the CH-47, also known as ...
Escalating military tensions in the Middle East have prompted further cancellations of flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh ...
In the 1950s, aviation engineer Frank Piasecki challenged conventional helicopter design by developing a tandem-rotor aircraft with a long, curved fuselage that earned it the nickname Flying Banana.
A group of Pan Am flight crews volunteered for Mission 1965/31, the final passenger flight out of South Vietnam. An ...