Rega flew more than 14,000 missions in 2008, a five per cent rise on 2007. The Swiss Air Rescue organisation which flies a fleet of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft is flying on average 39 daily missions. Of the 14,215 flights, 10,425 of these were undertaken by helicopters, the first time the number of rotary-wing missions has gone over 10,000. Rega is currently in a state of modernisation, taking...