U.S. Air Force’s new combat search and rescue helicopter completes extreme trials
by Dylan Malyasov
07:45 (GMT+0000) April 8, 2020
An HH-60W Jolly Green II, the Air Force’s new combat search and rescue helicopter, completed a month-long trial of extremes inside the McKinley Climatic Lab April 2.
The Sikorsky test aircraft endured real temperatures ranging from 120 degrees to minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit as well as 45 mph winds coupled with heavy rainfall. All of those scenarios were created within the lab’s 55,000 square foot test chamber.
The goal of these punishing tests was to prove the new aircraft’s sustainability in any operational environment.
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