the UH-60 Black Hawk has been the U.S. Army's workhorse helicopter. It entered the inventory in 1979 as a replacement for the UH-1 Iroquois, known as the Army's "Huey" helicopter, and it's filled ...

From the Vietnam War era to the late 1970s, the Bell UH-1 Iroquois (also called the "Huey") was the ... remains the same. The Black Hawk is a medium-duty utility helicopter that can carry a ...

WASHINGTON — No surprise here: Sikorsky will propose a derivative of its ubiquitous Black Hawk utility helicopter for the Air Force's Huey replacement program, according to an announcement Tuesday.

as a crew chief for Huey helicopters. Their job was to attack the enemy, transport troops and sometimes rescue their fellow servicemembers. Sixteen percent of soldiers were Black and there were ...

Incorporating the lessons learned from the Vietnam War, Sikorsky responded to the Army’s call for a new utility helicopter to replace the Huey. The Black Hawk focused on improving survivability ...

The Army began phasing out the Huey's in the '80s with the introduction of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. With the introduction of the smaller, quieter, and more maneuverable UH-72A Lakotas ...

How can the U.S. Air Force finally end its decade-plus quest to replace the 1960s-era Huey helicopters that guard its midwestern ICBM fields? Sikorsky has a new pitch: buy more of the Black Hawk ...

(WCCO) -- As the last of the 140 black engraved panels snapped into ... is a mechanical monument of sorts: a UH-1A, "Huey" helicopter. During the decade-long war, some 12,000 Hueys were flown ...

Few sounds in the world of aircraft are more iconic than the whomp, whomp, whomp of the Huey helicopter blades ... whether in daytime or pitch-black night!” This aircraft continues to bring ...

New York — about an hour east of Niagara Falls — teamed up with a local American Legion Post to restore the decommissioned UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter. But they have a certain vision ...

"Sikorsky's HH-60U Black Hawk offers a proven, capable helicopter that is already in the Air Force's inventory to meet the critical needs of the UH-1N Huey Replacement Program," Samir Mehta ...