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A HH-43 operating in the logging industry had a crash in 2006, with a failure of main gear box due to cracks. [27] The FAA said the helicopter gearbox had likely developed cracks from carrying heavy loads of logs. [27] There is one known flying and restored Huskie by the 2020s, which is sometimes flown at the Olympia Air show. [28]
A wide variety of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft are used for aerial firefighting. In 2003, it was reported that "The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management own, lease, or contract for nearly 1,000 aircraft each fire season, with annual expenditures in excess of US$250 million in recent years".
Firefighter Dave takes a visit to the Ontario, California Fire Department to see what it takes to be a real firefighter and how fire trucks work. It also features footage of the Ontario International Airport Fire Department in action. We look inside of a fire truck and learn about all of the different equipment and gear the firefighters use.
A CH-54A Tarhe carrying a pair of UH-1 Huey utility helicopters CH-54B carrying an M551 Sheridan tank, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Sikorsky Skycrane CH-54B with landing gear modified for soft ground. Work on what would become the CH-54 can be traced back to Sikorsky's earlier activities with "sky-crane" helicopters , particularly the piston ...
The Bell 407 is a four-blade, single-engine, civil utility helicopter. A derivative of the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger, the 407 uses the four-blade, soft-in-plane design rotor with composite hub developed for the United States Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior instead of the two-blade, semi-rigid, teetering rotor of the 206L-4.
A helitack helicopter will launch with a crew on board, drop them in the vicinity of the fire (or "incident") where they will begin clearing a firebreak with standard hand tools, while the helicopter can then support the team with water drops, either with a Bambi bucket or airframe-mounted water tanks, or ferry in additional personnel (e.g ...
The Robinson R44 aircraft spun out of control on its approach to the helicopter garage at Pearland Regional Airport around 9:30 Sunday morning, the dizzying CCTV footage of the incident showed.
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