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Air Force

Back on Schedule: Sikorsky Carves Five Months From Combat Rescue Helicopter Program

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019

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Back on Schedule: Sikorsky Carves Five Months From Combat Rescue Helicopter Program

The Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Recovering from a stinging Pentagon program evaluation in 2018, Sikorsky [LMT] has addressed design deficiencies in its HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter development and was able to cut five months from the program to get it back on track with the government’s prescribed schedule. Sikorsky has already logged 30 hours of shakedown flight time in the two HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter test aircraft it has flying and should begin data-gathering flights by the Fourth of July.…

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