Nicknamed the “Flying Cow” by pilots for its unwieldiness and giant size ... 1977 and within years had become the most powerful cargo helicopter in the world. It can carry up to 20 metric ...

A Billings Flying Service Chinook helicopter is loaded onto a Russian Antonov AN-124 cargo airplane at the Billings airport Tuesday afternoon for a flight to Indonesia. The Indonesian government ...

The plane is officially the second largest ever built. It's colossal nosecone lifts up, allowing large items - like helicopters - to be loaded on-board. Seen alongside the helicopters, the huge ...

The nose of Airbus's autonomous variant of the UH-72 Lakota would open up, allowing Marines to front load weapons or large cargo ... allow users to load cargo into the helicopter with a forklift ...

Some areas are unreachable by cargo ship, large cargo planes require good weather and long runways, and helicopters simply can't carry heavy enough loads to be appropriate - which is why Skyhook's ...

After flying more than 18,000 hours in Afghanistan, moving more than 7,900 tonnes of kit and stores and transporting over 130,000 personnel since 2009, RAF Merlin helicopters have finished their ...

The firm does not manufacture large cargo aircraft, though parent company ... on its S-76 and S-92 twin-engined medium-lift commercial helicopters, as well as the Erickson S-64 Skycrane twin ...

Aircraft maker Erickson and helicopter giant Sikorsky are working together to retrofit the cargo helicopter into a flying robot, one that could both fight forest fires and resupply military ...

The test involved cargo airdrops from 300ft ... and control systems give the K-MAX helicopter unparalleled flight autonomy in remote environments and over large distances, like those experienced ...

Marines armed only with a tablet PC and 15 minutes of training were able to steer and land large helicopters, called the Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (ACCUS), in driving snow.

A Canada-based helicopter was enlisted to transport large, heavy items from the ski area's parking lot to the slope. Workers on the ground connected the cargo to a cable that was attached to the ...