Since this past Monday, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) has been using helicopters to handle transmission line improvement work. The project covers power lines stretching across 50 miles of landscape in and around the towns of Cicero, Clay, Bridgeport, Chittenango, Canastota, Verona, Durhamville, Rome, Westmoreland, Whitestown, and Marcy. This aerial installation assignment is part of the NYPA’S Communications Backbone Initiative. …
A local nonprofit in Detroit, Michigan is offering up free helicopter rides over the city and surrounding country to people with cognitive and physical disabilities as one of its newest offerings. The organization, called the D-MAN Foundation, has in the past also engaged in other unique adventures for the unique individuals it services. These previous adventures have included swimming with …
When it comes to traveling moderate distances between destinations, there’s almost no vehicle that can beat a charter helicopter on flexibility and access. Not even other types of aircraft quite match a helicopter’s ability to travel point-to-point and often right to a specific, compact spot of your choice. Helicopters can also pick you up from nearly any setting while being …
Two New Jersey motorists had to be snatched from the roofs of their cars after spending hours trapped in place by the surging floodwaters of Tropical Storm Ida early this past Wednesday morning in Mercer County. According to police and rescue authorities, one of the drivers was lifted by the New Jersey State Police via helicopter after spending four hours …
Among the grateful victims that chopper pilot Joel Boyers managed to pick up during hurried evacuations in the path of catastrophic Tennessee flash floods were a young girl desperately clinging to a tree, and a soaked dog. These are just two of over a dozen individuals that the pilot managed to save that day. Joel Boyers, who is a Nashville-based …