A Look Back at the Black Hawk

[Triton]

Published on Oct 30, 2014

BLACK HAWK helicopters continue to be the work horse for the U.S. Army. Forty military and civil organizations around the world use this helicopter or one of its derivative models.

View: http://youtu.be/BBk1sTWPKI8

 

[Triton]

Published on Oct 30, 2014

When the U.S. Army announced in 1972 that it was looking for a new utility helicopter, Sikorsky aggressively pursued the contract to build what would become the now legendary BLACK HAWK.

View: http://youtu.be/GhPUEW-h8Ig

 

[Triton]

Published on Dec 4, 2014

on Thursday, December, 23, two days before Christmas, the U.S. Army called the Connecticut plant telling Sikorsky it had won the production contract to build what would be renamed the UH-60 BLACK HAWK.

View: http://youtu.be/WMH0Weql__Y

 

[RavenOne]

On this day 50 years ago, the YUH-60A flew for the first time

Sikorsky S-70 UTTAS Prototype – Igor I Sikorsky Historical Archives

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First flight of the YUH-60A was on October 17, 1974 with Sikorsky Chief Pilot Dick Wright and UTTAS Chief Pilot John Dixson at the controls.


cheers

 

[yasotay]

In a hundred years the afficionado of aviation will be arguing at the virtual pantheon know as the "Secret Projects Society" over whether the Blackhawk or the Hip was the greatest helicopter, back when people used that sort of thing.
The U.S. Army believes the Blackhawk is only half way through its useful life span.

 

[Aeroweanie]

In a hundred years the afficionado of aviation will be arguing at the virtual pantheon know as the "Secret Projects Society" over whether the Blackhawk or the Hip was the greatest helicopter, back when people used that sort of thing.
The U.S. Army believes the Blackhawk is only half way through its useful life span.

I think the S-67 Blackhawk was the greatest (the UH-60 is the Black Hawk - two words, not one):

 

[publiusr]

Now to mandate all pilots are also land train triple trailer truckers so they won’t break the tail off as in the bin Laden sanction.

Gimmie 60 acres and I’ll turn this chopper around…it’s the easiest way that I found….

 

[martinbayer]

It certainly was an extremely smart and elegant design - but probably at the time there was no matching mission need identified, aka a solution without a formal requirement. This is however where the USG acquisition process breaks down, and visionary solutions die. Perhaps Prince 51 would not have been lost if S-67 had been available to be used in Operation Neptune Spear...