The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied a protest filed by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, challenging the award of a lucrative Army helicopter contract to Bell Textron, Inc. The contract, worth up to $7 billion, is for the development of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), a new vertical lift aircraft that will replace the UH-60 Black Hawk utility fleet.
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Lockheed Martin has released a new video of their heavy lift CH-53K King Stallion helicopter. The clip purports to show the USMC helicopter flying in formation, and it does, just very briefly.
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Pacific Ocean – before dawn… US Navy flight deck crew ready a San Diego, California-based USCG HH-60J Jayhawk helicopter for launch from the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). The mission took place 15 December 2008 tasked to rescue an injured merchant sailor from a Liberian cargo ship. The patient was successfully rescued from the civilian vessel, flown to the Lincoln to stabilize his condition and then transported onward to San Francisco for additional care.
Read MoreA flight deck crewman uses flashlight wands to direct the crew of a helicopter to drop a cargo net of supplies aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7)...
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2006 -- All 12 crewmembers aboard two Marine CH-53E heavy-lift helicopters that crashed yesterday off the coast of Djibouti have been accounted...
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