Preliminary Research of Air Rescue Services in the World and Improvement for the Slovak Republic

The paper tackles the development of air rescue services in the world, comparing their activities. It presents a general overview of the development history of these services from the beginning to today. It also deals with the economic demands of the operation of air rescue services. The intention and main goal of this paper were to analyze various solutions of air rescue service in selected states, organization of the rescue itself, including rescue in mountain terrain for the optimization of air rescue services in the Slovak Republic.