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  2. San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines - Wikipedia

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    Passenger flights started with two leased 10-passenger Sikorsky S-62 [4] turbine helicopters. In late summer of 1961, the SFO Helicopter Airlines system timetable stated that 68 flights a day were operated, [5] [6] with the airline claiming that its helicopters made less noise than neighborhood trucks. [7]

  3. TWA Flight 529 - Wikipedia

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    TWA Flight 529 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 propliner, registration N86511, operating as a scheduled passenger service from Boston, Massachusetts to San Francisco, California.

  4. San Francisco International Airport - Wikipedia

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    In 1961 the airport had helicopter service on San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines (known as SFO Helicopter Airlines, and as SFO Helicopter) with 68 flights a day. Helicopters flew from SFO to downtown heliports in San Francisco and Oakland, to a new heliport near the Berkeley Marina and to Oakland Airport (OAK). In its timetable, SFO ...

  5. Sikorsky HH-52 Seaguard - Wikipedia

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    One prominent early use of the S-62 was with the operator San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines, one of the first helicopter airlines to operate without a federal subsidy, [6] and the first to operate exclusively using turbine engine helicopters; the airline commenced passenger flights using a pair of two leased S-62s in June 1961, each ...

  6. D.C. Plane Crash Has Eerie Parallels to 1961 Event That ... - AOL

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    David Madison/Getty Images The American Airlines flight that killed 14 figure skaters after colliding with an Army helicopter has strikingly similar parallels to a 1961 collision that killed the ...

  7. 1961 in aviation - Wikipedia

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    They receive the 1961 Bendix Trophy for their flight. May 26 – A U.S. Air Force B-58 Hustler flies from New York City to Paris in a record 3 hours, 19 minutes, 41 seconds, covering the 4,612-mile (7,427-km) distance at an average speed of 1,386 miles per hour (1,205 knots ; 2,232 km/h). [ 2 ]

  8. List of helicopter airlines - Wikipedia

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    1961 2011 Norsk Helikopter: San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines: Oakland, California: United States 1961 1985 Schreiner Airways: Sealand Helicopters: St. John's, Newfoundland: Canada 1977 1988 Silver State Helicopters: Las Vegas: United States 1999 2008 Universal Helicopters: St. John's: Canada 1963 2020 US Helicopter: New York City ...

  9. List of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-8

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    Japan Airlines Flight 2, a DC-8-62 (named Shiga) crashed on landing in San Francisco Bay due to pilot error; all 107 on board survived. The aircraft was recovered 55 hours after the incident and repaired by United Airlines; it was returned to JAL (renamed Hidaka ) on March 31, 1969 and remained in JAL service until 1983.

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