The Russian Ambassador has thanked the crew of the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) search and rescue (SAR) flight, which included Prince William (known as Flt Lt Wales in the service), for their attempts to rescue the crew of a sinking Russian cargo vessel this at the end of November.
Below is a video of the RAF helicopter's rescue of two sailors.
The 2011 winners of the Cormorant Trophy, which recognises the ‘Canadian civilian, government or military crew that has performed the most demanding helicopter rescue of the year’, have been announced, in honour of the rescue of a stranded hiker on Hat Mountain during a winter storm.
The UK is to have a new fleet of faster and more modern search and rescue helicopters, the British government has announced. The new service will see search and rescue operations provided by contracted civilian crews, and the government has today started the procurement process for a contract lasting around 10 years.
Aircraft manufacturer Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) has requested a review of the US Air Force (USAF) Light Air Support (LAS) bidding process, after the USAF notified the firm that its AT-6 fixed-wing aircraft had been excluded from continuing in the process.
Sergeant Janick Gilbert, a Canadian search and rescue (SAR) technician with 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron in Trenton, Ontario, has died after rescuing two boaters from stormy seas outside the Nunavut hamlet of Igloolik.
The 2011 winners of the Cormorant Trophy, which recognises the ‘Canadian civilian, government or military crew that has performed the most demanding helicopter rescue of the year’, have been announced, in honour of the rescue of a stranded hiker on Hat Mountain during a winter storm.
Aircraft manufacturer Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) has requested a review of the US Air Force (USAF) Light Air Support (LAS) bidding process, after the USAF notified the firm that its AT-6 fixed-wing aircraft had been excluded from continuing in the process.