BLACKHAWK TOWARDS A MYTH
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Aviation MEDIA 2014 PUBLICATION
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Credits
visit Japanese Blackhawks: Koos Heemskerk |
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Blackhawk
status on its way to world fame ! |
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Follow
us please and scroll down for two pages with images and the
article on page 2 êI
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Perhaps
the most well-known variant, the version used by the US Army (Kandahar
Afghanistan) |
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The
helicopter can transport cargo, and 11 fully equipped soldiers, maximum 12 |
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Seats
are simple but effective. After all it's not a holiday trip mostly... |
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Striking
is the fact that the S-70 variant of Sikorsky is built in Poland by PZL
Mielec |
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All
over the world the machine is used, very intensively by the Israel Defense
Forces |
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The
helicopter is very reliable also under difficult circumstances such as
temperature, dersert etc. |
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Quite
impressing, but unfortunately actuality in Israel every now and then !
(last three pictures credits IAF) |
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Our
photographer Koos Heemskerk saw this Blackhawk in Japan, equipped with so
called 'Stubwings' |
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This
example is a Spanish Sea-Hawk, on the left of the fuselage the sonobuoys
facility for detecting submarines |
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Here
we see a variant with external hardpoints for carrying missiles |
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Again,
this machine concerns a Turkish variant of the Blackhawk family |
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Oefff....
you'd better be friends with this one !! (USAF Afghanistan) |
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US
Coast Guard demonstrating a rescue at sea |
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View
at one of the many variants of the cockpit, the 'Blackhawks office'. |
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A
complete other layout of a Blackhawk cockpit layout. |
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We
have to show this one, Japan, equipped with stubwings and external
fueltanks (Koos Heemskerk) |
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Koos
did well in Japan ! Here the carrier version, mind the double tail-wheels |
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Another
variant is this one, capable of refuelling air-to-air. |
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Finally
an example of the color sceme of the Japanese Airforce |
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An
Austrian Blackhawk, without too many features around the fuselage |
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Also
Austria, rainy as it can be... |
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External
fueltanks, and ski's mounted to bring supplies high in the snowy mountains
at large distance |
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THE
RELIABLE MEDIUM
HEAVY TRANSPORT HELICOPTER
IN DIFFERENT VARIANTSi |
Greatful
thanks to our hosts at the spot in the various countries for making the
visits possible !I |
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