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The first helicopter was leased to KTLA by National Helicopter Service and Engineering Company in Van Nuys. [3] For several years, KTLA (channel 5) was the only TV station with a helicopter based TV camera crewed reporting platform. The Telecopter was designed and introduced by KTLA chief engineer John D. Silva (1920-2012). [4]
Helicopter was piloted by Gerstenhauer, with two Royal Air Force officers acting as observers. [10] 13 April 1963 First crossing by hot air balloon: Don Piccard & Ed Yost (US) “Channel Champ” [11] [12] Rye, England Gravelines, France First to cross the English Channel in a hot air balloon. [12] 9 May 1978 First powered hang-glider to cross ...
This is an incomplete list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by History Channel/H2/Military History Channel in the United States. Current programming [ edit ]
On 11 December 1951, the Kaman K-225 became the first turbine-powered helicopter in the world. Two years later, on 26 March 1954, a modified Navy HTK-1, another Kaman helicopter, became the first twin-turbine helicopter to fly. [97] However, it was the Sud Aviation Alouette II that would become the first helicopter to be produced with a turbine ...
Pages in category "History (American TV channel) original programming" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 219 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and ...
In January, 1949, a Hiller 360 became the first civilian helicopter to cross the United States. [ 2 ] Besides helicopters, in the year after World War II, Stanley Hiller researched a two-man rocket-jet aircraft design that took off and landed vertically, called the VJ-100 , in which he tried unsuccessfully to interest the U.S. military.
The History Channel's original logo used from January 1, 1995, to February 15, 2008, with the slogan "Where the past comes alive." In the station's early years, the red background was not there, and later it sometimes appeared blue (in documentaries), light green (in biographies), purple (in sitcoms), yellow (in reality shows), or orange (in short form content) instead of red.