The U.S. Department of Defense and Boeing announced on 12 August a contract award for a further nine MH-47G Block II Chinooks for a cost of around US$265 million.

This summer we joined four Instagram influencers on the camping trip of a lifetime in the first-ever Vertical Magazine Bring Your Own Heli event.

With the helicopter market recovering from the pandemic more quickly than anyone could have predicted, helicopter lessor Lease Corporation International is among those seeing demand for airframes outstripping availability.

Vertical meteorologist Ed Brotak takes a look at the hazards firefighting pilots encounter, and explores various fire-induced weather phenomena.

Stewart Graham helped pioneer many aspects of rotary-wing flight during his 24 years of service in the USCG, becoming the first living USCG aviator to be inducted into the Coast Guard Aviation Hall of Fame.

With large-scale redevelopment at Leonardo’s Yeovil production facility, investment in an unmanned aircraft demonstrator for the U.K.’s Royal Navy, and pitching the AW149 as a contender for the RAF’s NMH requirement, Adam Clarke certainly has his work cut out.

Acquiring new aircraft and a new CEO, Proflight Nordic is gearing up for change in everything but its core mission.

Helicopter training schools can offer a bewildering array of courses for the novice pilot, which can only add to the stress of learning to fly. The recently-launched Leading Helicopter Academies network hopes to simplify the process and enhance student opportunities.

Rather than discuss what we should do if we ever find ourselves in inadvertent or unintended IMC, we should focus on how to make sure we never find ourselves in that situation in the first place.