Bernd Van Doornick was born in East Berlin on January 5, 1945 but grew up with his family in Grenchen (Canton Solothurn/Switzerland) where he attended…

The birth of the Hughes 500D is directly linked to a helicopter developed by the Hughes Tool Company during the final stages of the Vietnam war to…

Peter Kolesnik for many years has been a reference for pilots in central and eastern Switzerland. He joined Linth Helikopter in 1974 and made a…

On March 16, 1979 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued the Robinson R22 type certificate to Frank Robinson. Forty years after its debut in…

The helicopters of the AS 350 Ecureuil series (squirrel in French) were introduced in Switzerland 40 years ago: the first with call-sign HB-XGW was in…