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📆 DEADLINE IS TODAY!🚁

Don’t miss the opportunity to share your incredible vertical aviation photos with THE WORLD and win $500 as the Grand Prize winner or $100 as a category winner.

📷To see the full list of contest rules plus look back at the 2025 contest winners, visit photo.verticalavi.org and enter today.

Oregon Live (US): US Coast Guard crew hoists pair from overturned boat - In a video the US Coast Guard (USCG) posted Nov. 22, a USCG helicopter crew pulls two people from an overturned boat near the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon.



🔎 Link to the news: https://shorturl.at/yCA4n

Happy Thanksgiving from VAI 🚁

In this season of gratitude, we give thanks to the incredible pilots, engineers, mechanics, operators, first responders, educators, and industry partners who keep vertical aviation moving upward every day.

Your dedication, innovation, and passion lift our entire community higher. Today and always, VAI is grateful for each of you.

Wishing you and your loved ones a safe, joyful, and inspiring Thanksgiving.

Thank you for helping shape the future of vertical flight.

Otago Daily Times (New Zealand): Helicopter crew rescues group stranded on New Zealand rocks - A riptide along a beach stranded the group Nov. 24 near Papatowai in the Catlins, South Island.



🔎 Link to the news: https://shorturl.at/PxnbX

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Sky News (Vietnam): Drone pulls worker from rising river in Vietnam - An operator used an agricultural drone to rescue a farmworker who became surrounded by water after flash flooding along the Srepok River Nov. 21 in Dak Lak.



🔎 Link to the news: https://news.sky.com/story/55-dead-in-vietnam-after-torrential-rain-triggers-flooding-and-landslides-13474371

⌛Time Is Running Out!

📷 The Deadline to Submit Your Photo Is Approaching!

💰 It's Your Last Chance to Win $500! The 2026 POWER UP Magazine Photo Contest is coming to a close! Submit your best photos of vertical flight aircraft by 11:59 pm eastern (UTC-5) on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025.

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Australian Broadcasting Corp: (AUS) The New South Wales Rural Fire Service crew conducted its first water bombing at night to help extinguish a bushfire near Lithgow.
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👉 Link to the news: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/first-night-time-water-bombing-operation/106031276

Welcome to the newest member of Vertical Aviation International! 🚁

▪️ Integrity Aircraft Titble Holding, LLC.

We’re beyond excited to have you as part of our amazing family.

👉 Find out how you can become a member at: verticalavi.org/join

KPNX (US): A Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff’s Office helicopter crew rescued three people from a van following flash flooding Nov. 18 in Wickenburg.
Link to the news: https://www.12news.com/article/weather/wickenburg-flooding-helicopter-rescue/75-446d10d8-8880-4fb1-8cad-aa332ea53431

Unofficial Networks (US): - A Pinal County Sheriff’s Office helicopter crew hoisted the hiker from a mountain trail Nov. 14 in Superior.
👉 Link to the news:
https://unofficialnetworks.com/2025/11/18/hiker-airlifted-broken-ankle-arizona/