Rotor Radio from Vertical Magazine features front-line, in-the-air, on-the-ground perspectives from helicopter industry leaders. Rotor Radio features first-hand accounts of challenging helicopter missions, the art of flying rotorcraft, in-depth industry analyses and news reporting.
Lt. Craig Campbell tells "Rotor Radio" what it was like hovering at 90 feet while hoisting survivors from a sinking ship without power or headway, taking 30-foot seas beam-on.
Erickson S-64 Air Crane pilot and training captain Keith Gill joins Rotor Radio to discuss the unique helicopter’s firefighting abilities.
Andrew Logan, founder of the Twitter handle @HelicoptersofDC, joins Rotor Radio to discuss the chopper traffic over Washington, D.C., and the data-gathering game he's developed to keep track of it all.
Brian Garrett-Glaser, managing editor of Vertical’s sister publication eVTOL.com joins Rotor Radio to discuss air taxis, the possibilities of electric propulsion, technologies emerging from the sector and how these aircraft will augment helicopters.
Jared Friend, general manager of the helicopter school at Hillsboro Aero Academy, joined Rotor Radio to discuss coronavirus-related training challenges.
Bell's Don Grove and Frank Lazzara answered some of our readers' questions about flying the V-280 Valor tiltrotor.
Brian Diaz, Airbus's resident UH-72 guru at Fort Rucker, joined Rotor Radio to discuss the helicopter, its history with the Army and how it's used to train future military rotorcraft pilots.
Chris MacKay of Total Response Solutions told us how his team of former Canadian military SAR specialists set up Mexico's first non-governmental offshore SAR service.
Vertical editorial director Elan Head joined Rotor Radio to discuss her reporting on spatial disorientation and the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
Quad-A president Jeff Schloesser talked about the ongoing pandemic, future vertical lift technologies and the heavy demand placed on uniformed aviators.
Sikorsky's Steve Weiner and Bill Fell talked us through the design and capabilities of the company's coaxial-rotor compound helicopters.
For our inaugural episode of Rotor Radio, helicopter aerobatic pilot Aaron Fitzgerald told us about his work for Red Bull and in the filming industry.
