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YPG’s Airborne Test Force Soldiers help Marine Corps pilots re-qualify on sling loads

With the assistance of members of the elite U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) Airborne Test Force (ATF), three Marine Corps pilots and their flight crews were able to practice conducting sling load ...
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Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant demos single-engine, sling-load and slalom flight

The Sikorsky-Boeing team behind the SB-1 Defiant demonstrator is pressing on with additional flight tests, five months after submitting to the US Army a proposal for the Future Long Range Air Assault ...
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Path to wings: Cadet faces trials during Air Assault sling load phase

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- As a military child, Cadet Jeff Garner traveled constantly throughout his military childhood. Every time his military Family moved, he and his siblings would have to go through ...
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Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant lifts 2,400kg as flight testing continues

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant rotorcraft demonstrated the ability to lift a 2,400kg (5,300lb) sling load in a recent test flight. The co-axial helicopter with a pusher propeller is still undergoing ...