More than 1,000 hours of flight experience is required to become a captain of a firefighting and disaster relief helicopter ...

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PITTSBURGH, Pa. (WTAJ) — Local firefighters geared up for a special training course this week at Pittsburgh's Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting training center. "It's like walking up to a bonfire a ...

Today, the global aviation industry is facing a significant shortage of helicopter pilots. Many pilots who began their ...

The dangers of fire on the flight deck were tragically highlighted in 1981 aboard the USS Nimitz. In this instance, an EA-6B Prowler was attempting to land and crashed into several F-14s. The ...

Kathryn Styer Martínez / OPB Firefighters Max Li and Owen Fortey worked in silence as they checked each other’s harnesses and flight gear, using hand taps and the thumbs up gesture to move through a ...