• Thumbnail for Helicopter Wing 64
    Helicopter Wing 64 (German: Hubschraubergeschwader 64) is a wing of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). It was subordinate to Air Force Forces Command until...
    19 KB (1,590 words) - 05:45, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helicopter Transport Wing 64
    Helicopter Transport Wing 64 (German: Hubschraubertransportgeschwader 64) was a wing of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). The wing was founded in 1966...
    18 KB (1,802 words) - 13:29, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing AH-64 Apache
    The Boeing AH-64 Apache (/əˈpætʃi/ ə-PATCH-ee) is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit...
    179 KB (16,198 words) - 17:07, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for German Air Force
    Air Force Wing 74, at Neuburg Air Base, with Eurofighter Typhoon Air Transport Wing 62, at Wunstorf Air Base with A400M Atlas Helicopter Wing 64, at Laupheim...
    98 KB (7,736 words) - 17:43, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion
    CH-53Gs were transferred to the German Air Force and incorporated into Helicopter Wing 64. During the 2010s, Germany was reportedly considering options for...
    82 KB (9,124 words) - 00:41, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Attack helicopter
    attack helicopter is projected to destroy targets worth around 17 times its own production cost before being destroyed. Low-speed, fixed wing Allied aircraft...
    57 KB (6,623 words) - 21:47, 30 October 2024
  • helicopters. They will be part of the Helicopter Wing 64 at the Holzdorf Air Base. The KSM is supported by the Naval Air Wing 5 in Nordholz which operates the...
    9 KB (1,076 words) - 06:22, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laupheim Air Base
    Laupheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is home to Helicopter Wing 64 which has 48 of its 60 helicopters stationed at the airbase together with 1,200 personnel...
    15 KB (1,460 words) - 19:31, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helicopter
    backward and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of short take-off...
    106 KB (11,103 words) - 05:17, 18 November 2024
  • Army Special Forces Command (KSK) German Air Force No. 4 Squadron Helicopter Wing 64 Ghana Armed Forces Ghana Navy Special Boat Squadron Hellenic Army...
    180 KB (10,579 words) - 03:32, 20 November 2024
  • Armed Forces Helicopter Wing (Swedish: Försvarsmaktens helikopterflottilj, Hkpflj) organizes all Swedish Armed Forces military helicopter operations. The...
    20 KB (1,574 words) - 21:29, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25
    Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 15 based at Rheine Air Base. On 1 January 2013 the unit was re-established as Helicopter Wing 64 of the German Air...
    26 KB (2,311 words) - 07:26, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air Transport Wing 62
    Helicopter Wing 64. Since then, Air Transport Wing 62 has only operated fixed-wing aircraft. Over the period 22–26 February 2011 Air Transport Wing 62...
    23 KB (1,817 words) - 08:25, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Holzdorf Air Base
    the city of Schönewalde. The air base is home to the air forces's Helicopter Wing 64. In 1968 the site was selected by the Air Forces of the National People's...
    5 KB (313 words) - 15:36, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laupheim
    re-established as Helicopter Wing 64 on 1 January 2013. Helicopter Wing 64 is equipped with transport helicopter CH-53 and light utility helicopter H145M LUH...
    46 KB (5,272 words) - 14:42, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hughes Helicopters
    Hughes Helicopters was a major manufacturer of military and civilian helicopters from the 1950s to the 1980s. The company began in 1947, as a unit of...
    10 KB (761 words) - 19:49, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stealth helicopter
    noise, radar, and infrared. In many ways, helicopters are less suitable for stealth technology than fixed-wing aircraft are; one such area is their rotor...
    20 KB (2,053 words) - 21:49, 30 October 2024
  • Defence for EH101 Merlin helicopters and for 67 licence-built Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, designated the WAH-64 and entering full operational...
    12 KB (1,158 words) - 13:38, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air Force Forces Command (Germany)
    Transport Wing 61 (disbanded 31 December 2017) Air Transport Wing 62 Air Transport Wing 63 Helicopter Wing 64 Ministry of Defence Transport Wing Fighter-Bomber...
    3 KB (259 words) - 20:00, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
    1986, pp. 5–6. Wheeler, Howard A. Attack Helicopters, A History of Rotary-Wing Combat Aircraft, pp. 57–62, 64–65. The Nautical and Aviation Publishing...
    36 KB (4,588 words) - 01:45, 9 November 2024
  • human-powered helicopter with a team from the University of Toronto. The first flight of AeroVelo Atlas was achieved in August 2012, the 64-second, 3.3-m-flight...
    29 KB (1,998 words) - 13:55, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the German Army Aviation Corps
    Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25, based at Laupheim Air Base disbanded on 31 December 2012 and was re-established as Helicopter Wing 64 of the German...
    19 KB (2,125 words) - 22:11, 6 November 2023
  • Founded in 1971, it is known for producing and operating the S-64 Aircrane helicopter, which is used in aerial firefighting and other heavy-lift operations...
    10 KB (835 words) - 02:16, 9 September 2024
  • Navy Reserve, land-based or sea-based, by aircraft type -fixed wing, rotary wing (helicopter. tiltrotor), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and by mission....
    117 KB (6,122 words) - 21:32, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Future Vertical Lift
    Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook, and OH-58 Kiowa helicopters. The precursor for FVL is the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) helicopter program. After a...
    71 KB (7,140 words) - 07:11, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing CH-47 Chinook
    The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense...
    132 KB (12,492 words) - 06:06, 16 November 2024
  • Cheetah HAL Chetak HAL Dhruv HAL Light Utility Helicopter HAL Prachand HAL Rudra Pentecost HX-1 Hoppi-Copter AH-64 Apache Hughes XH-17 Flying Crane Hughes-McDonnell...
    23 KB (1,903 words) - 13:30, 29 October 2024
  • aircraft during the Iraq War. According to media reports, 129 helicopters and 24 fixed-wing aircraft were lost in Iraq between the 2003 invasion and February...
    129 KB (12,251 words) - 03:47, 9 October 2024
  • Howitzer 2000 Light transport helicopter Bell UH-1D Medium transport helicopter Sikorsky CH-53 G/GS Light anti-tank helicopter Bo 105P/PAH-1A1 Light liaison-...
    17 KB (953 words) - 13:39, 9 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota
    The Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) UH-72 Lakota is a twin-engine helicopter with a single, four-bladed main rotor. The UH-72 is a militarized version...
    60 KB (5,860 words) - 10:40, 30 October 2024