Sikorsky's autonomous Black Hawk uses AI to locate fires and drop water, showcasing advanced rapid wildfire response ...

Sikorsky and Rain deploy autonomous Black Hawk helicopter controlled by a tablet to demonstrate uncrewed aerial firefighting ...

With autonomous technology, the crowd used tablets to command the helicopter to find and suppress a small fire.

The Rain system also rapidly adjusted the flight path to account for an 8-to-10-knot crosswind during each water drop.

The most current Black Hawk, the UH-60M, boasts a fully glass cockpit, complete with a modern avionics suite, while there are still a large portion of older UH-60Ls that maintain analog instruments.

Fifty years ago, on a crisp autumn day in Stratford, two Sikorsky test pilots climbed into the cockpit of a new prototype utility helicopter and lifted off for the first time. It was the first ...

The Pave Hawk is a modified Black Hawk helicopter owned and operated by the United States Air Force. It's meant for combat search and rescue. It usually has a crew of 4: pilot, co-pilot, and 2 Special ...

While safety pilots were present inside the cockpit as per FAA (Federal Aviation ... 5, 2022 saw a UH-60A Optionally Piloted Black Hawk performing the first-of-its-kind 30 minute fully autonomous ...

The US Army took a step in that direction Monday by awarding a $6 million contract to Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky to outfit UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters with the technology to fly by themselves.

7. Here’s what we wrote about that first flight in a previous article: After preparing the Black Hawk, the pilot flipped the optionally piloted cockpit switch from two pilot operations to zero ...

“Soldiers will rely on Black Hawk helicopters into the 2070s, and modernizing the aircraft today will pay dividends for decades across Army Aviation’s current and future aircraft.” The MATRIX autonomy ...

Get into the cockpit of the most advanced helicopters in the world, including the UH-60 Black Hawk, MV-22B Osprey, CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache, UH-1 Iroquois, OH-6 Cayuse, AH-1Z Cobra, CH-53 Super ...