Photos: US Navy Helicopters In Action In Haiti

 

By R.Gregg, The Raleigh Telegram

Thursday, February 4, 2010

 

PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI - Helicopters from the US Navy aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Normandy were instrumental in getting humanitarian aid from the Port au Prince airport across the country.

 

Helicopters including SeaHawks and the larger Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallions, or “Hurricane Makers” as they are called because of their tremendous prop wash, flew missions almost non-stop from dusk until dawn.

 

The USS Carl Vinson left the Haiti shores last week after crews from that ship ran countless helicopter missions in the country. The copters ferryied people and supplies back and forth between Navy ships, the USNS Comfort hospital ship, and the landing zones in Haiti.

 

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Photos: US Navy Helicopters In Action In Haiti

Helicopters including SeaHawks and the larger Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallions, or “Hurricane Makers” as they are called because of their tremendous prop wash, flew missions almost non-stop from dusk until dawn.  Photos by the Raleigh Telegram.

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