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Rotary Wing Roundup (Helos at work in Maritime Environment)
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091011-N-0807W-021 SOUTH CHINA SEA (Oct. 11, 2009) Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Kyle E. Eggering directs Navy and Marine Corps personnel aboard a Marine Corps CH-46 helicopter during flight operations aboard the the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49). Harpers Ferry, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are supporting humanitarian assistance operations at the request of the Republic of the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Parma. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua J. Wahl/Released)
090705-A-4455C-089 CORINTO, Nicaragua (July 5, 2009) A UH-60 Army Blackhawk helicopter from Joint Task Force Bravo, the U.S. Southern Command forward-deployed task force stationed in Soto Cano Air Force Base, Honduras, lands aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) to transport patients for surgery during a Continuing Promise 2009 medical service project. Nicaragua will be the final stop for Comfort during the four-month Continuing Promise humanitarian and civic assistance mission to Latin America and the Caribbean region. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Eric J. Cullen/Released)
090525-N-4879G-312 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 25, 2009) Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class James Patterson salutes an Army UH-60 "Blackhawk" helicopter as it lifts off from the flight deck of the guided-missile frigate USS Doyle (FFG 39) during a deck-landing qualification exercise. Doyle is deployed as part Southern Seas 2009 and is working with partner nations to enforce maritime security and interoperability in the 4th Fleet Area of Operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Patrick Grieco/Released)
080220-N-4500G-048 STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (Feb. 20, 2008) A special warfare combatant-craft crewman (SWCC) assigned to Special Boat Team (SBT) 22 climbs a ladder to an Army MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment the during a cast and recovery exercise along the Pearl River. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Robyn Gerstenslager (Released)
071211-N-9623R-003 FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif. (Dec. 11, 2007) Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 17 load a patient into a UH-60 Blackhawk medical evacuation helicopter during a mass casualty drill. NMCB 17, 4 and 22 are taking part in a joint three-week field exercise known as operation Bearing Duel. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kenneth W. Robinson (Released)
Pretty standard for the ship's wardroom to be very accomodating to visiting Aviators. If you can make it to the wardroom, the fare is often much better than the boxed lunches.
I thought the civilian contract helos doing vertrep went away...? Obviously not, but what's the status of that program?
Still on contract as of October:
090618-N-9689V-006 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 18, 2009) Embarked Presidential Airways Puma Vertical Takeoff and Replenishment Team practice maneuvers aboard the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) in preparation for the Pacific Partnership 2009. The USNS Richard E. Byrd is en route to Samoa. Pacific Partnership 2009 will be the fourth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet humanitarian and civic assistance missions for Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Richard E. Byrd will embark humanitarian civic assistance equipment and a robust multi-specialized team of preventive medicine personnel, veterinarians, medical and dental teams, a construction battalion and engineering personnel. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Valcarcel/Released)
090716-N-9301D-255 GULF OF ADEN (July 16, 2009) Air Department personnel aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68) connect a lift cable to a SA-330 Puma helicopter assigned to the combat stores ship USNS San Jose (T-AFS 7) during a vertical replenishment. Anzio is the flagship for Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations under a mission-based mandate to actively deter, disrupt and suppress piracy off the coast of Somalia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mathew J. Diendorf/Released)
090809-N-2638R-003 VISALE, Solomon Islands (Aug. 9, 2009) Children from the village of Visale take a tour of an SA-330 Puma Helicopter from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4). The helicopter arrived in the village to support Seabees working on the renovation of the Visale Primary School during a Pacific Partnership 2009 community service project in the Solomon Islands. Pacific Partnership is a humanitarian and civil assistance mission in the Pacific Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Reckard/Released)
090712-N-6692A-160 CORAL SEA (July 12, 2009) Sailors hook-up a pole pendant to a SA-330 Puma helicopter assigned to dry cargo ship USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE 6) during vertical replenishment aboard the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46). Tortuga is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready group which participating in military exercise Talisman Saber 2009. Talisman Saber is a biennial, combined training activity designed to train Australian and U.S. forces in planning and conducting combined operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Geronimo Aquino/Released)
Concur. The Soto Cano guys we worked with were very quick during the day. Dash 2 was usually on short final while Dash 1 was clearing and going.
091008-N-1688B-200 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 8, 2009) A Brazilian navy AH-11A Super Lynx Mk-21A helicopter prepares to drop a boarding team by fast rope during a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) exercise with the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67). Cole is participating in Exercise Joint Warrior 09-2, a United Kingdom-led, multinational and multi-warfare exercise designed to improve interoperability between allied navies. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Bookwalter/Released)
They have different performance charts, overwater flight requirements, you name it - plus those big drop tanks that give them 5+ hours of flight time. And that's 5+ hours of takeoff, cruise, land, repeat, not bucket airspeed and standard rate turns in the D. They were great guys and gals to work with and the mission we were doing in Nicaragua simply could not have happened without them there.
As for their slow approaches, they're simply not used to working a shipboard environment and the ambient conditions didn't help much either...
CARIBBEAN SEA (March 21, 2010) An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 9 prepares to land aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) during an underway replenishment. Bataan is conducting operations off the coast of Haiti supporting Operation Unified Response after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused severe damage in and around Port-au-Prince Jan. 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Julio Rivera/Released) 100321-N-7508R-371
CARIBBEAN SEA, (March 22, 2010) An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22 embarked aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) transports ammunition during a vertical replenishment. Bataan is conducting operations off the coast of Haiti supporting Operation Unified Response after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused severe damage in and around Port-au-Prince Jan. 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Erin Boyce/Released) 100322-N-4649B-216
TAIL TEST
As seen through a night-vision device, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Zachary Ritter test fires the tail gun in a CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter during a night flight over Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 3, 2009. Ritter is assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Timothy Brumley
The only guys who bounced their tailwheel on the MK-26 missle launcher on our ship (and they did it routinely) were the HS guys...and the 46s never landed on our ship at night....Just saying.:icon_smil
phrogpilot73
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I just now noticed this photo... HAHA! Take that, big ugly Chinook - your little brother beat you to it! Oh, and disregard that dent in the scupper abeam Spot 5. It wasn't my fault. Seriously.
090717-N-4846W-024 CARIBBEAN SEA (July 17, 2009) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Della Smith, a landing signal enlisted (LSE) aboard the amphibious assault ship Pre-Commissioning Unit Makin Island (LHD 8), directs an Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter assigned to Joint Task Force Bravo to a landing aboard the ship. Makin Island departed Pascagoula, Miss., July 10 and is currently circumnavigating South America via the Strait of Magellan to its new homeport of San Diego. During its transit, the ship will make port visits in Brazil, Chile and Peru. Makin Island is the final amphibious assault ship built in the LHD-1 Wasp-class, but the first of the class built with Gas Turbine Engines and an electric drive. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned in October. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin Webb/Released)
And here I thought that Blackwater/Xi/whatever the hell they are now only did crappy stuff like Afghanistan and Iraq. Might have to look into this...
Must have been Navy guys. Just sayin'...
My last deployment we took an unrep from a ship that had a Presidential Puma on board. We ran into them later in Subic. They were hiring. You needed 2,500 rotory wing hours to apply.
Of course that's what their pilot told me, I never did research that actual requirements.
But be aware, they were averaging about 3 hours of flight time a month!!
What percent get (Navy) 53's? 