iscoverThe RAAF Iroquois captain who flew in urgently needed ammunition to besieged soldiers of D Company, 6 Battalion during what became known as the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War is to be awarded the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM). The Honours and Awards Tribunal recommended in October last year that FLTLT Cliff Dohle,
The first customer delivered Bell 429, N911ED, began EMS operations in late March with Mercy One Air Ambulance in Des Moines, Iowa. The 429 performed its first medical mission on March 29 when it was tasked to respond to a car accident involving a police vehicle late in the afternoon. A male police officer was
The Army is upgrading some of its Bell 206B-1 Kiowa helicopters with new digital avionics to address obsolescence issues, reduce support costs and make the helicopters more suitable for lead-in training for the Tiger ARH, MRH 90 and CH-47. Under the Army Minor Capital Project 015.50 Kiowa Navigation Rationalisation Project, Sikorsky Helitech is modifying between
Two Army C Squadron CH-47D Chinooks have returned to Afghanistan, bolstering the International Security Assistance Force’s heavy lifting capabilities for the approaching summer. The Chinooks arrived by RAAF C-17s in early and mid March and are embedded with the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade based at Kandahar Airfield, southern Afghanistan, for an eight month deployment over
Bell Helicopters has appointed Larry D Roberts as its senior vice president commercial business, with responsibility for the sales, marketing and program development of Bell’s line of commercial helicopters. Roberts is joining Bell from American Eurocopter, where he served as vice president of sales, marketing and customer support. He simultaneously served as director of US
An unmanned Boeing A160T Hummingbird has successfully demonstrated its ability to meet the US Marine Corp’s vertical unmanned resupply capability requirement during a demonstration in Utah on March 9-11. Boeing says the A160T met or exceeded all of the USMC’s requirements, including delivering at least 1250kg of cargo from one simulated forward-operating base to another
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