Highest Service Ceiling Helicopter

The service ceiling varies from helicopter to helicopter but most start to struggle upwards of 11 000 feet.

Highest service ceiling helicopter. Helicopters rotary wing can t fly as high. But you did specify combat helicopters and not just attack helicopters. This is also the altitude record for propeller driven aircraft fai class u experimental new technologies and fai class u 1 d remotely.

It was a big deal hermansky told the alaska daily news. The listed service ceiling of. Some other helicopters may be more limited to around 14 000 15 000 feet like the mi 24 hind.

I ve read from other forum in internet that the highest service ceiling helicopter is belongs to eurocopter as350 ecureuil 8848km above the sea level. The highest altitude obtained by an electrically powered aircraft is 96 863 feet 29 524 m on august 14 2001 by the nasa helios and is the highest altitude in horizontal flight by a winged aircraft. The uh 1 huey helicopter used in viet nam had a service ceiling of 19 000 ft.

As for how high they can fly. Like with fixed wing aircraft it is called the ceiling usually two ceilings are distinguished. This is useful for mountain rescue missions.

Service ceiling where the aircraft can still achieve a positive rate of climb of either 100 fpm propeller or 500 fpm jet. Absolute ceiling the theoretical altitude at which no positive rate of climb can be achieved in other words. Helicopters arent pressurized so oxygen masks are usually required for prolonged flights above 12 500 feet.

The ah 64 apache ec665 tiger and ka 52 alligator respectively all have a service ceiling around 17 000 20 000 feet. The rescue happened at 19 833 feet making it the highest altitude rescue ever performed in north america. The newer black hawk can probably reach 24 000 25 000 ft.