UH-60 Black Hawk

UH-60 Black Hawk

Bring a versatile utility helicopter to your passenger and freight routes. This UH-60 Black Hawk now comes in ten versions, from military to firefighting to heavy industry, plus one Cold War what-if. All of them are listed together under one depot entry.

Ten versions

• UH-60 Black Hawk: a bold cargo livery with an orange nose and cabin, a white mid-cabin panel with a diagonal orange stripe, and a charcoal tail with orange and white fin bands. All the orange follows the in-game color picker, including the rotor tips.
• US Army: classic olive drab with tilted UNITED STATES ARMY titles, a tail number and a dark rotor head.
• Special Operations: near-black with low-visibility gray markings, inspired by the Army's night-flying special operations Black Hawks.
• USAF Rescue: gunship gray in the style of the HH-60 Pave Hawk, with a modeled aerial refueling probe, an orange rotor cap, USAF RESCUE titles and a low-visibility star-and-bar.
• Firefighting: white, red and navy, with a swept red band, FIRE RESCUE titles and a modeled belly water tank.
• Arctic Survey: white with high-visibility international orange on the nose, tail and stabilizers.
• Desert Camo: sand with dark earth camouflage patches and Army markings, in a Gulf War era style.
• Offshore Utility: high-visibility yellow over dark blue, for crew-change flights out to the rigs.
• Heavy Lift: safety yellow and black with hazard stripes on the tail, stabilizers and rotor tips, built for construction work.
• Soviet Air Force: a just-for-fun what-if in the colors of 1980s Soviet helicopters like the Mi-8 and Mi-24: sand, earth-brown and green camouflage over a pale blue belly, red stars with white borders and a red tactical number.

In-game specifications

• Available from: 1979
• Maximum speed: 280 km/h (174 mph)
• Capacity: 12 passengers or 12 units of any cargo type
• Versions: ten liveries, with a customizable accent color on the cargo livery

Passenger and freight loads are alternative configurations, not simultaneous capacities. These figures describe this mod's game settings.

Features

• Animated main rotor, blade grips and hub assembly, plus tail rotor
• Blurred rotors in flight, in the style of the base-game helicopters
• The helicopter tilts nose-down as it speeds up and nose-up as it slows to land
• Sliding cabin doors that open while loading and unloading
• Detailed cabin laid out like the real UH-60: troop seats with harnesses, crew chief and gunner seats, quilted soundproofing and a floor with tie-down rings
• Red anti-collision beacons, navigation lights, a tail light and landing lights
• Detailed, weathered exterior with crisp panel lines and rivets: military versions look service-worn, civilian ones clean and glossy
• Helicopter engine and rotor sounds
• Transparent cockpit and cabin windows
• Three levels of detail for viewing at different distances
• Passenger and universal cargo support

All unit names, numbers and serials on the liveries are fictional. No real operator, agency or company is represented.

Credits

Original model: Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk by BARANGER Emmanuel (helijah), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Adapted for TF3 with new liveries, added refueling probe and water tank parts, and material, animation, cockpit and LOD changes. No author endorsement is implied.

Original UH-60 model by BARANGER Emmanuel (helijah). TF3 conversion, liveries, animation integration, and vehicle setup by Maverick. See the included third_party_credits.md for source and license notices.