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A Sentara Norfolk General Hospital helicopter landing pad. Source: US Coast Guard 5th District Mid-Atlantic Contact: 5th District

Coast Guard Demonstrates Capability of Virginia Hospital Rooftop Helicopter Pad

April 15, 2019 Guest Author or Contributor

A Coast Guard helicopter aircrew performed the first landing at one of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital’s new helicopter landing pads on April 10, 2019. The Norfolk, Virginia hospital recently built two new rooftop helicopter landing […]

Raytheon and the US Army Apache Program Management Office, in collaboration with US Special Operations Command, recently completed a successful flight test of a high energy laser system onboard an Apache AH-64 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The demonstration marks the first time that a fully integrated laser system successfully engaged and fired on a target from a rotary-wing aircraft over a wide variety of flight regimes, altitudes and air speeds. Photo: US Army, PRNewsfoto/Raytheon Company.

First-ever Helicopter-based Firing of High Energy Laser

June 26, 2017 Guest Author or Contributor

Raytheon and US Army Apache Program Management Office Demonstrate Feasibility of Ground Attack By Sally McDonough, raytheon.com Raytheon Company and the US Army Apache Program Management Office, in collaboration with US Special Operations Command, recently completed […]

Middle Fork of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho. Source: REX PARKER/FLICKR, via earthjustice.org.

Conservationists Challenge Helicopter Intrusions in Wilderness Area

January 9, 2016 Kay Whatley

Helicopter operations are part of a broader program to artificially inflate elk numbers by eliminating wolf packs Released by Timothy Preso (Earthjustice), George Nickas (Wilderness Watch), Gary Macfarlane (Friends of the Clearwater), and Ken Cole […]

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The Strange-ness: Endangered Species Condoms Given Away for World Population Day

July 3, 2017

New Museum Program Highlights Effect of Human Population Growth on Wildlife By Sarah Baillie, endangeredearth.org Hundreds of free Endangered Species Condoms will be given away at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo on Thursday, July 6, 2017, as […]

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The Strange-ness: Tiger Finds Friend in Goat

December 3, 2015

While the Bible may say that the leopard will lie down with the goat, at an animal park in Russia it is a tiger that has adopted a goat as a bunk mate. Right around the date […]

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The Strange-ness: Morpheus Bridge Spectre

October 31, 2016

For Halloween, let’s look at a local “legend”. We’ll visit the Morpheus Bridge on the aptly named Morpheus Bridge Road in Wendell, North Carolina. The story goes that a mother, father, and child — alledgedly a daughter — were driving along […]