"David Lednicer" wrote in message
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Chad Irby wrote:
On the other hand, when the Blackhawk was in development and early
deployment, the pilots called the the "Black Rock." Tail issues.

Not certain what you are talking about.

That is a common thread in Irby's posts.

There was one crash and one
heavy landing during Black Hawk development. The crash was a result of
the airspeed input into the horizontal tail scheduling not being hooked
up after maintenance. On take off, the horizontal tail stayed in the
high incidence position, causing the aircraft to pitch over and crash,
killing the crew. The heavy landing resulted from an excessive rate of
descent, due to pilot error. The result was a shaken up crew and a
broken tail wheel.

The Blackhawk has served America well.