As the Vietnam War escalated, Bell Hueys were deploying ... weapons team consisting of one Bell OH-58 Kiowa scout helicopter and one Cobra. “Low and fast, exciting and exhilarating,” says ...

Ahead of its time in performance and design, the Lockheed AH-56 seemed like a promising attack helicopter for the United States Army during the Vietnam War, but instead ended ... and Bell developed ...

Long before the Vietnam conflict had ended, the “Huey” (its original Army designation was HU-1A, for Helicopter, Utility, Model 1A) was probably the most recognizable helicopter in the world ...

was a 1st Lieutenant during the Vietnam War and was honored for completing a daring rescue mission in the dead of night in 1968. He and another pilot — flying in a Cobra helicopter ...

Manufactured by Bell Helicopter ... Huey helicopter of Vietnam War fame—the chopper’s official name is the Bell AH-1 SuperCobra; the unofficial moniker of “Whiskey Cobra“ emanates from ...

AH-1Ws are fielded in Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadrons, or HMLAs, along with the UH-1N. Super Cobra helicopters form the backbone of the Marine Corps’ air-ground task force and act as on ...

To this day, little is known in the West about the fate of the more than 200,000 Vietnamese prisoners of war who fell ... missions as a helicopter pilot in northern South Vietnam between August ...

We’ve been learning about Karl Porisch’s Vietnam service, piloting Marine CH-46 helicopters out of Marble Mountain Airfield south of Danang. He recalled that night medevac missions were challenging ...

The Bell UH-1 helicopter ... and South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The massive bombing runs did not paralyze the enemy as they might have in a more conventionally-fought war, but the B-52 ...