As a family, we were really looking forward to Christmas Day to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We were going to celebrate this special day in church, and I was excited because I had been asked to sing. But things turned out differently.

In Madagascar, it is quite common to see smoke in the air, especially during the dry season. However, on one particular day several unusually thick smoke plumes rising from near the Ambilorano mission base caused the cheerful mood in the helicopter to immediately change to one of concern. Smoke like that could mean trouble of some kind. 

Six years ago, I, Matt, and my fellow pilot Micha were in Karawura for a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for a future building.

Major parts of the helicopter have a shelf life (life cycle). At the end of this time period, these parts are either replaced or overhauled.

Small planes are cheaper to operate than helicopters. Per passenger, a plane is three times cheaper. That is why we use helicopters for...

Half the village stood laughing and in amazement around the two white men who were trying to pump drinking water from a dirty bucket...

Ernie Tanner writes: Carrying supplies in the great heat to the people starving in the camps at the edge of the Ethiopian Danakil desert...

Around half of the airstrips in the bush have been opened with the help of Helimission. Several flights with the helicopter are necessary...

There is a large rainforest at the eastern end of the island of Madagascar. During our medical mission a while ago ...

An intercom system in a helicopter is an independent communication network.

Here in Papua, Indonesia, you can quickly go from one extreme to the other. 

I spent 5 days with Sedera and his team in the east and south-east of the rainforest.

A while ago, I was assigned a flight to take a delegation to a church conference in Yalmeby, picking up a patient in Urop on the way back. 

It was Friday afternoon when we heard about a young man who had been shot.

Recently we had a request from the government to fly a team of seven people into a village in order to issue the villagers some official ...

During our week-long mission with medical teams from the hospital in Mandritsara, we flew to several villages.

A while ago, I spent three-months in Madagascar. I worked with a French organization in a dispensary near the capital Antananarivo. 

A helicopter is a very special aircraft. It can hover in the air, fly backward, and even move sideways. But how was the helicopter invented?

The hospital in Mandritsara in the North of Madagascar has been making a valuable contribution to the well-being of the people.

Once again, we had an assignment with the HVM Hospital in Mandritsara.