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With all of Southern California to cover, Air 7 HD could be working a story over downtown L.A. and 20 minutes later be covering a story in the mountains of the Angeles Forest.
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Best Seat in the House: ABC7 Los Angeles

With the most powerful camera system in the industry integrated with an augmented reality mapping system, Air 7 HD for ABC7 Los Angeles is raising the bar in electronic news gathering.

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A Sikorsky S-300 gets ready for takeoff at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks.
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Degrees of Flight: University of North Dakota

Student pilots at the University of North Dakota get the benefit of earning a degree alongside their pilot ratings — and with financial aid and scholarships also available, the school’s

After being out of the short light single engine helicopter market for seven years, Bell returns with the 505 Jet Ranger X. The aircraft has a proven 206L drive train, a drastically improved cabin over the 206, and cruise speeds in excess of 120 knots. Sheldon Cohen Photo
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Back in the Game: The Bell 505 Jet Ranger X

The 505 Jet Ranger X marks Bell’s return to the short light single-engine market following the end of production of the phenomenally successful 206 series. In early March, we had the opportunity to

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Helijet renews resort fishing lodge service contracts to 2019

Helijet has extended its existing helicopter air service contracts with six of British Columbia’s world-renowned fishing resort lodge clients located on the Haida Gwaii Islands and Bella Bella, along the Central-West coast of British Columbia.
The aircraft flew 101 hours at various altitudes and in different temperatures over the course of the campaign, with the highest of its 350 landings at 18,800 feet.

AW119Kx Koala completes demo tour in Himalayas

The Leonardo AW119Kx Koala has completed its test and demonstration tour in Nepal, during which it flew up to the Mount Everest base camp and achieved a maximum altitude of 24,180 feet.

While the FastFin kit delivers most of its benefits on the back side of the power curve, it does not present any adverse effects in cruise or autorotative flight.
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Taming the Squirrel

With its new FastFin kit for the Airbus Helicopters H125, BLR Aerospace has created a margin enhancer that also makes a notoriously squirrelly aircraft a pleasure to hover.

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NHV awarded offshore contract by SHL

The NHV Group has announced a new contract with Seaway Heavy Lifting to provide helicopter services in support of its upcoming wind farm construction project at the Beatrice Offshore Wind farm.
Okanagan Air Services first Bell 47B-3, CF-FZX, piloted by Carl Agar, lifts off to spray insect-infected forests in the Windermere Valley in the East Kootenays. This operation, among others in 1948, helped prove the value of helicopters. B.C. Ministry of Forests Photo
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The Little Company That Could

Originally formed as a fixed-wing flight-training club, Okanagan Helicopters helped pioneer the rotorcraft industry in Canada, especially when it came to mountain flying and remote-area construction