Using a tablet, visitors controlled the Black Hawk aircraft to take off, search for and locate the fire, and then drop water ...

A helicopter putting out a wildfire may not be news, but a robotic Black Hawk helicopter seeking out one and dropping water on it while the crew sits back and watches certainly is. That's what ...

Aerial firefighter is the coolest job in the world, if you ask me. These skilled pilots fly ludicrously low to the ground to ...

During the 30-minute flight demonstration, people used a tablet to command the Black Hawk aircraft to take off, search and ...

Sikorsky and Rain deploy autonomous Black Hawk helicopter controlled by a tablet to demonstrate uncrewed aerial firefighting ...

that early prototype would win Sikorsky the Army’s competition for a new do-it-all utility helicopter. The Army christened the new helo the YUH-60 Black Hawk. We at Sikorsky owe the state of ...

Stratford-based helicopter maker Sikorsky has received a $6 million award from the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) to convert another model of its Black Hawk ...

Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky The U.S. government has awarded Sikorsky a contract by to build more than 70 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to be exported to Austria, Brazil, Greece, Sweden and Thailand.

The US Army took a step in that direction Monday by awarding a $6 million contract to Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky to outfit UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters with the technology to fly by themselves.

When combined with the MATRIX autonomy system, the MX aircraft will be a near-exact copy of Sikorsky’s UH-60A fly-by-wire Optionally Piloted Black Hawk helicopter, the company’s flying lab that has ...