the Blue Eagles are one of only two professional helicopter aerobatics teams in the world?
one method of torture used by the French Army in the Algerian War of Independence was to throw prisoners into the sea from helicopters in so-called death flights?
the captured Yugoslav seaplane tender Zmaj was used for shipboard trials of the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) helicopter by the Kriegsmarine in 1942–43?
the first helicopter flight was in 1906 in Lisieux, France?
the first peace-time air-sea rescue unit equipped entirely with helicopters was No. 275 Squadron RAF in 1953?
the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken from helicopters and hot air balloons?
a helicopter once crashed on Interstate 84 in New York, stopping traffic and causing a power outage?
Juliano Verbard escaped from a French prison in a hijacked helicopter?
U.S. soldier Louis R. Rocco single-handedly carried three comrades out of a burning helicopter under enemy fire, despite having burned hands, a broken wrist and a fractured hip?
Thomas Edison hailed George de Bothezat's rotorcraft, the "Flying Octopus", as "the first successful helicopter"?
Vice Admiral Henry Burrell (pictured) initiated a Royal Australian Navy re-equipment program in the 1960s that included new helicopters, submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, and auxiliaries?
BÅ»-1 GIL was the first Polish experimental helicopter?
Cyril Pullin designed the first successful British helicopter and his son was the pilot for its first flight in June 1938?
Carl Agar developed new techniques for flying helicopters by flying high in the Canadian Rockies?
Singapore's 5.4-ton Pegasus is the first helicopter-portable 155mm howitzer with a self-propelled capability?