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This paper covers the rise of a helicopter company from a small beginning to a major factor in the helicopter world. It tells of a company's struggle to overcome the problems of a new and untested method of transportation. This company, Petroleum Helicopters Inc. (PHI) is known throughout the entire helicopter world. This presentation covers only a few of the major problems a new company in a new industry faced beginning in February 1949.

This paper traces the evolution of Piedmont Airlines (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) from a very small feeder airline beginning in 1948 to an International Airline operating into Canada and England with an all-jet powered fleet in 1989. At this point, they were merged into US Air and lost their identity as Piedmont Airlines--forty years of aviation history.