During the flights, Sikorsky safety pilots were in the Black Hawk cockpit monitoring the flight controls but were hands-off until the aircraft landed. “With Rain’s wildfire mission software ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...