Two Nevada Department of Wildlife workers and Tuff, the dog, have the National Guard to thank for rescuing them from the wilderness a few weeks ago. The two men, part of a group of five, were doing fish habitat assessments and population surveys when one of them became ill due to the heat. Three of [...]
Sikorsky Aircraft has injected a billion-dollars into a new business venture called Sikorsky Innovations. What’s their first goal? To get the pilot out of the Black Hawk. They want to apply the same technologies used in smaller UAVs to the 20,000lb full size helicopter while speeding the transformation from mechanical to computerized. They plan to [...]
Aircraft serial number 0001 is in the final phases of assembly at the PZL Mielec plant in Poland. This new product model will be the first international version of the Black Hawk helicopter and boasts a 10 ton lifting capability. According to Sikorsky representatives, the price point for the S-70i puts it in competition with [...]
Chief Warrant Officer Laine Stahr has been flying blackhawks for the last four years and has been in the Army for 17. He had been repeatedly asking for permission from his commanding officers in the 101st airborne to land the helicopter on his family’s farm in Nebraska. He was finally granted permission this year and [...]
One person was killed and eight others were injured in a Blackhawk crash that occurred just before 8pm EST on Thursday. The helicopter was being used for fast rope training over a Navy combat support ship known as the Arctic. During the operation it made contact with the ship, rolled on its side and started [...]
During a routine homeland security training exercise, a Blackhawk helicopter borrowed from the US military damaged the facade of a building with its rotor wash. The SWAT team was practicing rappelling while the helicopter was hovering near Detroit’s police helicopter storage hanger. This led to the facade of the building being ripped apart. <jalopnik> (btw [...]
