Vertical Magazine

1 week ago | verticalmag.com | Oliver Johnson

Published on: May 5, 2025Estimated reading time 28 minutes, 1 seconds. Northern British Columbia is not a land for the fainthearted. Rugged and wild, with settlements that are small and far-flung, its cavernous valleys and towering mountains are interspersed with dense forests. To the west lies the northern Pacific coastline and, above that, the Coast Mountains of Alaska.

2 weeks ago | verticalmag.com | Lisa Gordon

Published on: April 29, 2025Estimated reading time 20 minutes, 52 seconds. When tariff talk began wafting up from the United States, Trevor Mitchell was concerned for the Canadian helicopter industry. As president and CEO of the Helicopter Association of Canada (HAC), Mitchell knows his 450-plus members are already experiencing cost pressures from many different directions – and tariffs only make a bad situation worse.

2 weeks ago | verticalmag.com | Jen Boyer

Helicopter Express was recently awarded a 170-day, three-year firefighting contract with CMC Savunma Sanayi A.S. for two Sikorsky S-64 Skycranes to support the Turkish General Directorate of Forestry’s national wildfire response. The contract was awarded in mid-March. Helicopter Express prepared and shipped two helicopters weeks later with the aircraft expected in country and ready to fly as soon as May 1.

3 weeks ago | verticalmag.com | Elan Head

A new report from New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) provides deep insight into a helicopter accident associated with vortex ring state (VRS), including a detailed analysis of how upslope winds and the helicopter’s nose-high pitch attitude combined to make the entry into VRS more likely.

3 weeks ago | verticalmag.com | Treena Hein

Published on: April 21, 2025Estimated reading time 10 minutes, 13 seconds. Anyone who has followed the rise of The Helicopter Company (THC) since its launch in 2019 can’t help but be impressed. As Saudi Arabia’s first national commercial helicopter operator, THC is backed by the country’s Public Investment Fund and plays a central role in Saudi Vision 2030 — the Kingdom’s roadmap for economic diversification and public sector development.