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B-52 aging gracefully at 50
![]() MH-6 helicopter key part of 'Black Hawk Down' rescue Although a low-profile product due to its Special Forces customer, the Mesa-built MH-6 'Little Bird' helicopter was featured in the book and movie "Black Hawk Down," which depict the firefight in the streets of Mogadishu in 1993 in which Americans were under fire and rescued. During that summer, elements of the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment from Ft. Campbell, Ky., were deployed to Somalia. They took with them an unspecified number of MH-6 Little Bird helicopters. On a mission to insert Special Forces during the search for a Somali warlord on Oct. 3, the regiment lost five crewmen and two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to hostile ground fire in Mogadishu. Other aircrews tried to rescue the downed comrades. In one of many rescue missions, a Boeing MH-6 Little Bird landed near the wreckage of an MH-60 in a narrow street. Under intense ground fire, the MH-6 took off with a survivor holding on to the skids. The Boeing Light Helicopter operation was sold to a Dutch company in 1999, which now markets the helicopter line under the banner of MD Helicopters Inc., a privately held company. ![]() 'American Fighter Pilot' series gets early grounding
![]() International Space Station goes 3-D IMAX moviegoers across the United States and abroad get a chance to experience life - albeit from their stadium theater seats - on the International Space Station. And they get actor and space buff Tom Cruise as their intergalactic tour guide. "Space Station 3D" will transport viewers 220 miles above earth as they blast off with astronauts from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome for the orbiting station. The film lets viewers hitch a ride on the ISS' loading arm during a spacewalk, drift freely in space as they test an individual propulsion pack, and duck flying debris as it sails toward the screen - all at zero gravity. Boeing is the ISS' prime contractor and is a 50 percent partner in United Space Alliance, which is responsible for the pre- and post-flight work done on the U.S. Space Shuttle fleet. The 47-minute film - billed as the first-ever IMAX 3-D space film - made its debut April 19 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and is co-sponsored by the museum, IMAX, and Lockheed Martin. The film later opened at about 24 U.S. theaters and more than 100 worldwide. In addition to dramatic three-dimension effects, the film also offers a peek at astronauts' daily routines - exercising, making repairs, and installing equipment. They aren't filmmakers in their regular lives, but astronauts aboard the ISS were trained to shoot footage using specially built cameras. And "Space Station 3D" producer-director Toni Myers faced a unique challenge - directing her novice cinematographers from Earth. ![]() Stratocruiser, DC-3 celebrated in Chicago A Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser has found a home in one of Chicago's newest luxury hotels. On the sixth floor of The Peninsula Chicago is a "Wings of Chicago" suite of meeting and boardrooms that pays tribute - through historical aviation display décor - to the development of American commercial aviation. A model of the glamorous 1950 Stratocruiser - whose main cabin accommodated up to 100 passengers - has been the main attraction in the "Wings of Chicago" pre-function area. The suite's theme celebrates Chicago's status as an early aviation hub of the United States. ![]() IAM PROMOTIONS: No promotions listed for period ending March 22, March 29, April 5 and April 12. |
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