Naval Forces Central Command. Humplik added that operating aircraft over water during both daylight and darkness is a great training opportunity for Army aviators because it presents challenges to navigation, communication and logistics. Training exercises like these play an important role in mission readiness and total force capability by increasing interoperability between branches, which is vital for joint collaboration missions. Each pilot was required to make 5 approaches and landings during both day and night segments to obtain a qualification in the maneuver.
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Log In Sign Up. Burpee said the problem surfaced during a routine test flight of a new Apache at Fort Rucker. That grounding began on April 19, , following two fatal crashes, one at Fort Bragg, N. Investigators determined one of those crashes, on April 18, , at Fort Rucker, was caused by the failure of a main rotor-blade spindle. The incident prompted repairs to the entire fleet. The Blackhawks returned to service last June. The Fort Bragg crash, which occurred on March 13, , was blamed on a problem peculiar to that single chopper, involving a missing bolt in the flight-control assembly.
That order was lifted after investigators determined the cracks had been caused by an improperly designed maintenance tool. Eagle he was jogging near the Elba airport, 15 miles west of Fort Rucker, and saw the helicopter preparing to take off. Shortly after the takeoff, the witness said, he heard two loud noises and then saw the helicopter explode as it hit the ground.
The tail section burned on impact but the fuselage did not, officials said. That crash was six miles south of Elba. Based on the Bell , the single-engined aircraft in current use were built between and These aircraft were all manufactured in the early s. Although the airframe design is more than 50 years old, rival derivatives are currently being offered by Boeing and MD Helicopters — most recently during the LIMA exhibition in Malaysia last month.
These are believed to include aircraft originally owned by Iraq, and others acquired from Soviet-era operators. Our pictured example — registration — was originally operated by the East German air force. Spain has formally ordered the conversion of three former Iberia Airbus A passenger jets into multi-role tanker transport MRTT aircraft. Israel Aerospace Industries IAI has unveiled a new family of pod-housed electronic warfare EW equipment, which it says is suitable for use across a range of self-protection, standoff jamming and training applications.
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