http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/helicopter/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:06:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411826/posts Benny Ben-Dror parachuted from an exploding helicopter in the Yom Kippur War and miraculously survived. Ben-Dror had kept his survival story secret from the public until now. “I was discharged from the IDF in August '73,” explains Ben-Dror, who is now 58, “and one Saturday morning in October I got a call: ‘There’s going to be a war. Come.’” Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411826/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:06:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406913/posts Federal agents are investigating whether a helicopter they have held for 14 months at an airport in Texas was earmarked for shipment to Iran. ap http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406913/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:12:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375390/posts Investigators are trying to determine why a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 airplane and a U.S. Marine Corps attack helicopter collided on Thursday night, likely killing nine crew members. Aircraft and ships are scouring the ocean off San Diego for any signs of survivors of the nighttime collision, but Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the crash likely killed both the plane's seven crew members and the two-person crew of the AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter.Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the crash occurred minutes after control of the C-130 was handed off from FAA controllers to military air controllers. CBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375390/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:34:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374299/posts BreakingNews San Diego media: 9 missing after collision of Coast Guard C-130 and Marine Cobra helicopter off the SD coast. BNO News working to confirm. BreakingNews via Twitter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374299/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:22:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371488/posts KABUL, Oct. 26, 2009 – Separate helicopter incidents today claimed the lives of 11 U.S. servicemembers and three U.S. civilians in Afghanistan, military officials reported. Officials of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said four U.S. servicemembers died when two ISAF helicopters apparently collided over southern Afghanistan, and seven U.S. servicemembers and three U.S. civilians were killed when their helicopter went down “due to unconfirmed reasons” in western Afghanistan. In addition to the four servicemembers killed in the apparent collision incident, two more were injured, officials said, adding that hostile fire is not believed to be a factor. In the... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371488/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370996/posts Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) - Fourteen Americans died in a pair of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan on Monday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. In the deadlier crash, a helicopter went down in the country's west. "Seven U.S. service members and three U.S. civilians were killed," an ISAF statement said. "Those injured include 14 Afghan service members, 11 U.S. service members and one U.S. civilian." CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370996/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369065/posts VIRGINIA BEACH One person was killed and eight others were injured when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during joint training with the Army. The services were doing "fast rope" exercises 20 nautical miles off Fort Story about 8 p.m. Thursday, sliding down a rope from helicopters and landing on the fast combat support ship Arctic, when one of the Army helicopters made a hard landing, said Capt. Cate Mueller, a Navy spokeswoman. It was unclear whether the injured were from the Navy, the Army or both. A Navy news release this morning says that members of... The Virginian-Pilot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369065/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368853/posts AUSTRALIA'S military chiefs favour the US over Europe in a planned $4 billion naval combat helicopter buy that is generating high-level concern among senior government ministers and local defence industry leaders. In a classified submission sent to defence ministers John Faulkner and Greg Combet, the military chiefs have opted for the US Navy's MH-60R Seahawk as the best choice for the Royal Australian Navy's new rotary wing anti-submarine warfare platform. The military chiefs favour an early decision on the Sikorsky MH-60R, arguing that it represents a cheaper, risk-free solution for Australia compared with its competitor, the European NH90 naval frigate... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368853/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:26:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362623/posts Air Force Maj. Jack Swinehart (left), 721st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron UH-1H pilot, oversees an Iraqi pilot performing aerial formation flying procedures here, Oct. 8. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Johnny Saldivar, U.S. Air Forces Central, Baghdad Media Outreach Team. CAMP TAJI — U.S. Air Force pilots here train, advise and assist Iraqi helicopter pilots around the clock, helping the Iraqis to develop a capable Air Force to secure their country. Christopher Elam, Mi-17 instructor pilot, and Jack Swinehart, UH-1HP Huey Military Transition Team lead, both majors with the 721st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, fly side-by-side with Iraqi pilots, fine-tuning... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362623/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:11:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362317/posts (IsraelNN.com) Muslim terrorists' newest nightmare? Steadicopter, an Israeli company, has developed an unmanned helicopter using patented technology that enables the chopper to stay stable while airborne. The new technology was on display at ISDEF 3 – the third annual Israel defense show, currently being held at Tel Aviv's fairgrounds. The developers said that the unmanned helicopter can be used wherever manned helicopters are currently used, for a smaller price and with no danger to human life, and also in place of unmanned fixed wing aircraft. Isreal National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362317/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:15:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353934/posts A fast-food restaurant in this western Ontario city served cheeseburgers to a Canadian Forces pilot Thursday — while his helicopter was parked outside. Michelle Patterson said Friday she thought something was wrong when she looked out one of the windows of the A&W restaurant. All she saw was flying dust. "I thought, 'Oh gee,' and I went over to the side of our building and there was a helicopter there with a police car," she said. Moments later, the helicopter pilot walks into the restaurant. "He said he was here to pick up some supper before taking off again," said... Ottawa Citizen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353934/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 03:46:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349224/posts FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Sept. 14, 2009) — The Missouri National Guard now has the capability and training to provide hoist extractions with some of its UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 106th Assault Helicopter Battalion of Fort Leonard Wood and the Springfield-based 1107th Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group trained using hoists from Aug. 28 to 30 in Springfield. The hoists can be used to extract up to 600 pounds of personnel or cargo per lift into a Black Hawk during appropriate state or national emergencies. Possible uses are lifting stranded people off cars and rooftops... Pulaski County Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349224/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:54:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344105/posts <p>Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 | 3:15 a.m.</p> <p>The U.S. military says a Blackhawk helicopter has crashed inn an American base in Iraq, killing 1 service member and wounding 12 others.</p> <p>The military says the helicopter went down Saturday night at the Balad Air Base, 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad. It says the cause of the crash is unknown and under investigation.</p> AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344105/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:24:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341437/posts Helmand Province, Afghanistan With the war increasing, Air Force Pararescue has been crisscrossing the skies picking up casualties. (excerpt) We are flying in a special U.S. Air Force Blackhawk helicopter to fetch a seriously ill British soldier. In Iraq, many of the casevacs were done by ground forces. In other words, if we hit a bomb or got shot, soldiers would load up the dead and wounded and rush them to the CSH (Combat Support Hospital or “cash”). But in Afghanistan most of the fighting occurs outside the cities and far away from the base hospitals. Rescue helicopters stationed at... Michael Yon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341437/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:02:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331278/posts Prominent Indian Christian Politician Dies in Chopper Crash Thu, Sep. 03, 2009 Posted: 11:20 AM EDT Dr. Y.S Rajashekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh died in a helicopter crash along with four others on Wednesday while traveling from the state capital Hyderabad to Chittoor district. Under his leadership, the state had appealed to the federal government to amend the Indian Constitution to provide for granting the Scheduled Caste status to millions of Untouchable ‘Dalit’ Christians that will give them many benefits. The 60-year-old chief minister, popularly known as YSR, was going to Chittor for a mass... The Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331278/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325874/posts Here is video of Somali Pirates firing a "Large Caliber Weapon" at a U.S. Navy Helicopter from the deck of a Taiwanese ship they have been holding hostage since April. More than 30 hostages are being held on board the ship. Fox News' John Scott talks with a Navy Spokesman for the 5th Fleet about the incident. . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325874/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:54:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325986/posts A U.S. Navy helicopter conducting surveillance off the coast of Somalia was fired upon Wednesday by pirates aboard a Taiwanese-flagged vessel, where some 30 crewmembers are being held hostage, according to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. The Somali pirates fired what appeared to be a large-caliber weapon at the U.S. Navy SH-60B but didn’t strike it, according to the Navy. No one was injured in the incident and the crew did not return fire, the Navy said. The Taiwanese ship Win Far was seized April 6. Since then, it has been used as a "mother ship" for the launching of... Stars and Stripes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325986/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:06:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325793/posts Unfortunately, He Forgot To Tell The School School officials at East Ridge High in Clermont, Florida, were less than thrilled that Bart Sutherin rented a helicopter to take his son to his first day of classes Monday. Aero News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325793/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:35:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325661/posts DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325661/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318815/posts A new high-tech helicopter that was designed to whisk U.S. President Barack Obama to safety in the event of a nuclear attack had a secret capability -- cooking. The helicopter, one of the world's most technologically advanced, was scrapped by the Pentagon for its high cost. Obama revealed on Monday it would have had an onboard kitchen. 'Among its other capabilities, it would let me cook a meal while under nuclear attack. I'll tell you something. If the United States of America is under nuclear attack, the last thing on my mind will be whipping up a snack,' he quipped... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318815/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:54:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315538/posts Obtained by NBC news, this video shot by an Italian tourist shows the moment of impact between a Piper Saratoga and a Eurocopter over the Hudson River. The accident killed all nine aboard the two aircraft. >> WATCH << NBC News / YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315538/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:06:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312016/posts Taliban bring down Polish helicopter gunship 6th August 2009 Mi-24 helicopter shot down in Afghanistan, crew survive Gazeta Wyborcza reports that on July 31 an Mi-24 helicopter gunship which was on route from Kabul to the Ghazni province in Afghanistan with nine soldiers on board caught fire. "At around 5.30 pm flames started to come out of one of the engines. Then the second engine went off. The helicopter lost height. The lives of those on board were saved by the skills of the pilot," says the informer quoted by the daily. While the crew survived, the zÅ‚.30 million helicopter... Warsaw Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312016/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:47:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2311652/posts Here is Fox News video airing the first photos of the mid-air collision of a Helicopter and Airplane over New York City's Hudson River earlier today. Nine people in all are believed dead, including one child and five Italian tourists. Only two bodies have been recovered thus far. The video shows the photos of a family who captured the mid-air crash on their camera. The family talks about what they saw as their photos are shown. . . . . (Watch Video for Photos) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2311652/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 00:04:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2311631/posts Here is a video report of the deadly helicopter/plane crash over the Hudson River in NY. Two bodies have been found but 9 are believed to be dead.....(Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2311631/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:19:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311460/posts BAGHDAD — Thanks to a trio of American Airmen here, members of the Iraqi Air Force (IqAF) are learning to provide their own air power for their own missions. The three Airmen are part of the 721st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, whose mission is to "train, advise and assist" the Iraqis at the helicopter squadrons here. The Iraqi gunners' PKC machine guns are mounted to makeshift metal platforms, and the gunners are trained to defend their crew and cargo against threats. "The Iraqi gunners are as integral a part of the crew for their helicopter as we are for ours... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311460/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:04:29 GMT