Tag: UH-60 Blackhawk
The cable entangled in the HH-60G’s main rotor assembly resulting in catastrophic damage and an unflyable condition According to an Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter that crashed in Iraq on Mar. 15, 2018 struck a galvanized steel cable before impacting an uninhabited desert area near Al Qaim in western Anbar...
“In general it takes almost two Black Hawks to carry the load of a single Mi-17,” Pentagon Inspector General Glenn Fine Pentagon Inspector General Glenn Fine said in a new report that the UH-60 that Afghanistan imported to replace the Mi-17 is not as capable as the Russian rotocraft. As reported by Bloomberg, Fine wrote in his latest quarterly assessment of...
In those few moments the lives of 26 crew and passengers aboard the two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters were ended and the reputation of the F-15 Eagle was forever altered On Apr. 14, 1994, tragedy struck when the 26 crew and passengers of two U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were downed over northern Iraq by two F-15Cs flown...
There were seven people on board the HH-60G Pave Hawk and all were USAF airmen A U.S. Air Force (USAF) HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter has crashed near al Qaim in western Anbar Province, Iraq, on Mar. 15, 2018 and at least some aboard were killed. As reported by ABC News there were seven people on board the helicopter and all were...
Among 1st Air Cavalry Brigade helicopters involved in this deployment there are CH-47 Chinooks, UH-60 Black Hawks, HH-60 Black Hawks and AH-64 Apaches Taken at Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, the incredible photos in this article show 1st Air Cavalry Brigade "Air Cav" helicopters staged and ready to move in Germany. Noteworthy the aircraft arrived in Europe to support Operation Atlantic Resolve. As...
Each pilot was required to make 5 approaches and landings during both day and night segments to obtain a qualification in the maneuver Taken on Oct. 11, 2016 the following pictures show UH-60 Blackhawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 111th Aviation Regiment, 77th Combat Aviation Brigade, conducting deck landings in the Arabian Gulf aboard the USNS...
