A Mi-17 helicopter lifts a pallet of cargo using a sling load method at Operating Base Eagle, Zabul province, Afghanistan, Sept. 8. A coalition aircrew of Afghan, U.S. and Lithuanian airmen from the Kandahar Air Wing, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan comprise the only Afghan Air Wing to make weekly operational sling load deliveries throughout the country. Afghan Air Force Mi-17s can externally sling load more than 8,500 pounds of oversized or bulky cargo.
Date Taken: | 09.08.2011 |
Date Posted: | 09.18.2011 07:22 |
Photo ID: | 458324 |
VIRIN: | 110908-F-8370L-011 |
Resolution: | 1200x1732 |
Size: | 1.12 MB |
Location: | FORWARD OPERATING BASE EAGLE, AF |
Web Views: | 144 |
Downloads: | 9 |
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