Archive for: November 2010

29 Apr 1975 — A CIA employee (probably O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half mile from the U.S. Embassy. — Image by © Buffon-Darquennes/Sygma/Corbis

24 Apr 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam — Airborne troops wait to board helicopters at a small field just outside this city 4/24. Troops will be airlifted to point of nearest fighting to support defense of Saigon. In foreground, youngsters watch from their bicycles. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

A Marine One escort chopper in advance of the two Marine One helicopters.

USCGC Diligence WHEC-616 The United States Coast Guard Cutter DILIGENCE is a 210 foot, diesel powered, helicopter-capable medium endurance cutter with 76 crewmembers. The current DILIGENCE is the sixth U.S. Coast Guard Cutter to bear this name and was commissioned in 1964. In 1990, DILIGENCE was temporarily decommissioned for modernization. …

McClellan Air Museum: HH-53 "Jolly Green Giant" search and rescue helicopter

SOROTI, Uganda—Uganda People’s Defense Forces and U.S. Soldiers wait for supplies to be dropped from a Ugandan Air Force Mi-17 helicopter during ATLAS DROP 11 at Drop Zone White near Olilim April 18. Atlas Drop, an annual joint aerial-delivery exercise sponsored by U.S. Army Africa that brings together U.S. Army …

A retired news helicopter is suspended over the main lobby of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

110426-O-ZZ999-002 ABOARD USS CLEVELAND (LPD 7), At Sea — An MH-60S Knight Hawk assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 23 "Wild Cards" brings food and other supplies from fleet oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO-194) to amphibious transport dock ship USS Cleveland (LPD 7). Cleveland is the flagship for Pacific Partnership …

The ANGELS of the AirMed Flights a SIKORSKY 76 Helicopter!!