Entries tagged 'helicopters'

Breaking News -- Another Copter Crash on Kauai

Star-Bulletin reporting. That makes six in the past four years. One dead, four injured. This was a 20 year-old helicopter with a six-year-old air worthiness certification from the FAA. With all these crashes, could it be possible that flying birds...

Breaking News - Kauai Copter Crash: The Most Dangerous Place for Whilrybirds on Earth

Three dead tourists plus the pilot. No obvious causes. No obvious signs of malfunction or trouble before takeoff. Just a radio distress call, a precipitous decent, and a crumpled whirlybird on a grassy field near the runway of the...

Hawaii Video of the Day: Na Pali Coast, Kauai

This helicopter-shot video is almost surreal. The spires of the Na Pali Coast and the 3,000 foot cliffs, along the western side of Kauai, look as if they were dropped in off the moon. Probably one of the most...

YouTube for Travelers: Travelistic Hawaii

The folks over at Travelistic are churning out short videos that attempt to emulate the style of Web newscastlet Rocketboom and the pop culture phenom YouTube. Of course, bikinis are involved in a lot of the videos – you do...