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| 09.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Does the Future Include Farnborough?
Perhaps it was the economic troubles, the weak dollar, the fair weather or competition from other international aerospace exhibitions. But nearly every exhibitor, attendee and fellow journalist that Rotor & Wing queried during July’s Farnborough Air...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: The Bonds That Hold The V-22 Team Together
The Bell Helicopter-Boeing team that produces the V-22 Osprey for the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force is enjoying good times. A second Marine squadron is deployed to Iraq and is supporting combat operations there. The Air Force is increasing the number of...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Heard in the Hallways: Russia Wants Your Business, But Bring a Translator
Helicopter industry leaders in Russia make much of their efforts to reorganize their activities and reclaim their place as a world leader in design and production of rotorcraft. A delegation came to the annual Heli-Expo gathering in Houston four months ago to...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Heard in the Hallways: Bell Builds a New Management Team
President and CEO Dick Millman continues to recast the management team at Bell Helicopter. He stunned us in March by hiring 32-year Sikorsky Aircraft veteran and long-time tilt-rotor critic Nick Lappos to head Bell’s XworX R&D shop. Now he’s...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Heard in the Hallways: Is the USAF In the Fight?
That is the question on many minds inside and outside the Beltway. First, Defense Secretary Robert Gates in April faulted the Air Force for failing to get more unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan to support combat...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Heads Roll, Gently, on VH-71
It rarely happens that a military acquisition incurs major delays and cost overruns without some heads rolling. And so heads have rolled in the VH-71 program. The next-generation U.S. presidential helicopter program, launched with a 2005 contract award, is...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Is the C.G. Shifting for Rotorcraft R&D in the U.S.?
That was a question on the minds of U.S. attendees at last month’s American Helicopter Society International annual gathering in Montreal. What provoked the question? The U.S. Navy’s launch of a rotorcraft center of excellence, based at NAS...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: A Bad Year for U.S. Safety
2008 is already a bad year for aviation safety in the United States. That may strike readers as a strange statement. The traditional measure of safety, certainly in the public mind, is accidents, and this year has not been exceptionally bad. Helicopter...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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"Here I Come To Save the Day!"
A grass-roots movement may be afoot to adopt a mascot for the Army Aviation Assn of America in the form of Mighty Mouse. Quad A became linked to mice at its recent annual convention marking the 25th anniversary of the Army aviation branch. It was held at the...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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FAA-Airline Snafu May Speed Reauthorization
The ongoing controversy caused by FAA surveillance of U.S. airline maintenance programs may spur resolution of a long-standing dispute in Washington over the FAA. The controversy was triggered by findings that agency inspectors were too cozy with Southwest...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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H-1 Makes Headway, VH-71 Worries NavAir
The head of the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, Vice Adm. David Venlet, says there’s progress on the U.S. Marine Corps H-1 upgrade program, but the VH-71 presidential helicopter program is still struggling. Venlet told Rotor & Wing that the Bell...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Heard in the Hallways
Taking on Needles In Bigger Haystacks Planning on getting lost at sea? Try to wait a few years. The U.S. Coast Guard is in the process of installing new emergency beacon locators on all of its aircraft. The new DF-430-F electronic director finder, made by...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Heard in the Hallways
Armed Dolphins Replace Stingrays The U.S Coast Guard is now flying its own armed helicopters to interdict drug runners, after nearly a decade of using leased aircraft because its own weren’t powerful enough to lift the guns and crews needed for the...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: A Hidden Hurdle To Indian Market Growth
India is widely considered one of rotorcraft’s biggest potential growth markets. But how will that growth develop? Slowly, some experienced with doing helicopter business there argue. Demand for offshore-support services is rising, spurred by increased...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Headed for a Military Conference? Brace For the Eye Exam
A recent U.S. Army aviation conference served as a reminder that a prerequisite for such events is an eye exam. The event was one of several whose presentations feature the notorious "quad chart." This visual aid crams four Powerpoint-type slides...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Who’ll Fight for U.S. Army Aviation Now?
U.S. Army aviation faces tough times ahead, and must face them without key proven leaders. The branch has prevailed in tough slogging, engaged as it has been in an intense level of combat operations in southwest Asia and in the global war on terror since...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Who Will Own Joint Heavy Lift?
Companies supporting U.S. Army efforts to flesh out a Joint Heavy Lift (JHL) aircraft expect a new lot of funding for more research soon. But the real question, as a senior Army aviation leader posed one Washington evening last month, is who will own that...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Will Tilton Be Able to Say "I Told You So"?
Among the complaints MD Helicopters chief Lynn Tilton voiced after losing the U.S. Army’s $3-billion Light Utility Helicopter contract was that the Army’s choice, European aerospace group EADS, was suspected of insider trading. Tilton and the...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Heard in the Hallways: New U.S. Concerns About Iraqi Ground Fire
You may not have seen much in the news about manpads and Iraq, but U.S. military officials and defense analysts are increasingly concerned about that threat to helicopters operating there. The concern is that Iraqi insurgents...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Heard in the Hallways: More Scrutiny for General Aviation
Think the FAA’s August decision to shrink and streamline the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) around Washington was a harbinger of a "kinder and gentler" U.S. government view of general aviation? Think again. Testifying before the Senate...
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