Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters

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SMS_F2013_06 · Structural Materials Selection, Fall 2013 · §9.p4

So Bell and Boeing developed the tilt rotor, so you can operate in helicopter mode with the rotors up, or you can tilt the rotors forward to have a propeller going around like a regular aircraft. These can go about 300, 350 miles an hour. They also don't make as much noise as a helicopter blade running this way, as opposed to a propeller running this way. So they can't hear you coming, and you're coming at 350 miles an hour, not 200 miles an hour. The Marines consider this a significant advantage. They did use one in getting Osama bin Laden, although most of them were Sikorsky Blackhawks. I'll tell you some more about Blackhawks later.