How a US Army CH-47 flight engineer got stuck in mud with his Chinook twice
‘We landed in a soybean field and sank… The field was plowed and the dirt very loose…,’ Chris Ishmael, former US Army CH-47 Chinook flight engineer. On Jan. 5, 2021,…
‘We landed in a soybean field and sank… The field was plowed and the dirt very loose…,’ Chris Ishmael, former US Army CH-47 Chinook flight engineer. On Jan. 5, 2021,…
A US Army Black Hawk helicopter made an emergency landing at Charles de Gaulle Square, Bucharest, tearing down two public street lights and stopping traffic but making no casualties. A…
A few times, Lt. Éva ‘Vivi’ Horváth, the female pilot of one of the Mi-24V was able to keep a firm “target lock” on an F-15 in the gunsight, while…
The C-5M Super Galaxy is specially built to transport massive military equipment, capable of carrying six Apache helicopters, two M1A Abrams tanks, or 250,000 pounds of relief supplies A large…
Gen. Franks flew MH-60 Pave Hawk tail number 009 during Operation Allied Force, rescuing Lt. Col. Darrell Patrick “Dale” Zelko F-117 Nighthawk pilot downed in enemy territory. An MH-60G Pave…
One function the AH-64E Apache model is capable of performing is full instrument flight. This means pilots can fly through low visibility conditions such as clouds and adverse weather. A…
The HH-60W Jolly Green II test aircraft will be modified for operational use before being transferred to their respective Air Force rescue unit. On Apr. 13, 2021, the US Air…
This technology was recently tested in a first-of-its-kind mission, demonstrating complete supervised autonomy capabilities on the S-70 Optionally Piloted Vehicle Black Hawk. Sikorsky and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Defiant X is a complete weapon system that builds on the handling qualities and transformational capabilities proven by the team’s technology demonstrator, SB>1 Defiant. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, and…
The incident took place after the Apache suffered a malfunction during a live firing training exercise and was forced to land at Sculthorpe training range in Norfolk. The British Army…