Rotor Stories

On July 1st, Canada celebrated it’s 150th birthday. In celebration of Canadian history and in support of various charities, father and son Bob and Steve Dengler embarked on a 39,000-km trip around the world. The father and son duo had been planning the trip for over a year and a half. It is a trip […]

Airbus has designed a helicopter that is said to fly at 250 mph, placing at a speed in the middle of Gulfstream’s G650 private jet (600 mph) and the speed of a local police traffic reporter (160 mph). This new aircraft is set to be named “The Racer”. It is unique in the sense that […]

This is a brief tail of my personal experience soloing a helicopter for the first time. Looking back, we have all put in a lot of effort to get this far. I personally have spent 40.5 hours of dual instruction time flying and tons of time studying to get to this point. Well where do […]

Korey Fequet became a helicopter pilot after spending six months at Capitale Hélicoptère, a flight school in Quebec City, Canada. Like many other young pilots, his dream was obviously to work in the helicopter industry. His hard work during his training allowed him to get a job at the Complexe Capitale Hélicoptère, home of Capitale […]

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity: Saving Lives by Saving Time  Over two decades ago, on May 21st 1991, a handful of people formally launched a new air ambulance called ‘Air 5’ in Worcestershire. The service, is now known as ‘Midlands Air Ambulance’ and was founded as there was a significant need for a rapid response paramedic […]

Douglas Williams, student at Western Helicopters in Rialto, CA, got his private license in December. He is 37 years old, and currently working towards getting his commercial licence. “I have always looked to the sky for inspiration, and helicopters always seemed so much more capable than airplanes. Funny enough, Airwolf was my favorite show. That […]

Carl Forsling is from Ames, Iowa. “I pretty much had the standard Midwestern upbringing. School, football, and wrestling”, he said. He is a MV-22B Osprey instruction pilot and he was kind enough to answers some questions for RotorNation. Tell us about yourself After high school, I went to school at the University of Pennsylvania, which I […]

This is a story of one of the more important decisions I ever made although at the time it just seemed like a good idea. In 1978, I was awarded my Royal Naval pilot’s wings and went on to train on the Sea King Mark One anti-submarine helicopter. After conversion, I was offered the option […]

[header 3]Exclusive Interview with Fernando Cicaré, President [/header] Did Augusto Cicaré (Cicaré’s Designer) have any background or experience when he decided to build helicopters? Augusto had no background at all. He was born in a very small village called Polvaredas. He was 4 or 5 years old when he saw on the cover of “Popular […]

Erica Schatz lives and works in NYC and has been doing her flight training at Helicopter Flight Training, Inc. located at MacArthur Airport on Long Island. When Rotornation first contacted her, she was a few weeks away from her check ride. Later on, she wrote us back to let us know that she had passed […]