Helicopter business soars to great heights.

From: Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News | Date: February 20, 1989 | Copyright information

Helicopter business soars to great heights

AT THE SHOW - You have a 1,000-lb hvac unit that has to be lifted on top of a building. How do you move it?

Two helicopter companies, both exhibitors at the show, explained that helicopters are more efficient than tower cranes, the alternative.

According to Vi Butler, marketing representative, St. Louis Helicopter Airways, Inc., Chesterfield, Mo., the helicopter saves time. Two or three days would be spent just...

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