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With new owners, new aircraft, and a new business direction, exciting times lie ahead for Blade Aviation, formerly known as Heli Muskoka.

There’s never a good time for an engine failure, but limiting your time in the “avoid” area of the height-velocity diagram increases your chances of a safe escape.

Amaris Premium Aviation has brought the ceramic coating process from the car world to aviation, but with an innovative twist. Its nano ceramic coating technology creates “super surfaces” to improve overall aircraft longevity, performance, safety, and appearance.

We look at what weather-reporting tools are available to predict and identify instrument meteorological conditions.

U.S. Coast Guard and RCAF helicopter crews rescued more than two dozen fishermen from a sinking vessel on a stormy North Atlantic night.

Life Flight Network’s Leonardo AW119Kx crews face some of the most challenging wilderness in the continental U.S.

Modern EO/IR sensors have changed the way airborne law enforcement missions are performed, in some cases outshining the helicopters that carry them.

RTE’s helicopter division and its subsidiary Airtelis work on the cutting edge of helicopter operations supporting powerline management and maintenance.

Rethinking a maneuver in response to an emergency is one thing. Convincing the piloting world that they need to change a long-held practice is quite another. But Claude Vuichard did just that in developing a new escape from the vortex ring state.

York Galland has become one of the most recognizable faces of the helicopter industry through his @iflyheli Instagram account. In February, a new presence appeared in his photos and videos — a heavily-customized Airbus H130.