The first main and tail ... by the CH-53K aircraft's three 7,500-shaft-horsepower GE38-1B engines. The four 10 ft. long CH-53K tail rotor blades have 15 percent more surface area compared to the same ...

UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) will provide components for the US Marine Corps’ CH-53K King Stallion helicopter ... aircraft’s tail rotor, including drive shafts, couplings and bearing assemblies. For ...

Sikorsky’s John Rucci is a Senior Experimental Test Pilot for the CH-53K. A former Marine and Super Stallion pilot, he knows the demands of flying the biggest helicopter in America’s military ...

The four 10 ft. long CH-53K tail rotor blades have 15 percent more surface area compared to the same tail rotor blades on the CH-53E helicopter. On the CH-53K aircraft, the tail rotor blades ...

May 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. , has begun full system testing of the U.S. Marine Corps' CH-53K heavy lift helicopter with all seven ...

"These new blades are an important feature of the CH-53K helicopter's ... aircraft's three 7,500-shaft-horsepower engines. Sikorsky is producing all-composite tail rotor blades for its aircraft ...

The Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion ... exhaust gasses, rotor gears with shorter than expected service lives, and problems with the helicopter’s drive shaft and tail rotor. The King Stallion ...

Scheduled for first flight this year and entry into squadron service in 2019, the U.S. Marine Corps’ (USMC) CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter ... tail-rotor component that attaches the spar, upper skin and ...

CAPITOL HILL – Marine Corps leaders are looking forward to ramping up CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter production ... the production of those airplanes to drive the cost down. We’ll have to ...

The rotor systems are designed to work in unison, connected to the same drive shaft ... fastest helicopter used by the U.S. military, having been surpassed by the "King Stallion" CH-53K.