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| 07.01.2008 |
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World Roundup: Around the World Airborne Police are Climbing High
Growing recognition of homeland security needs, the availability of funding to meet them, and new equipment to support those missions are lifting police air units from England to Indonesia. Law enforcement agencies across the globe are recognizing the value...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Obstacle Avoidance: Can’t See...Avoid
Avionics manufacturers are fielding a variety of sensor packages to help helicopter pilots better detect hazards to flight. It is the difference between a slice of pie and a half an onion. You can picture the risk of hitting a stationary obstacle with a...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Commercial | EMS: Air Medical Operations: Pushing the Limits
Demand for EMS services in Europe is growing, straining the bounds of bureaucracy and infrastructure. Helicopter emergency medical services operators in Europe came into 2008 facing a number of challenges. The segment is confronted by health-care systems that...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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U.S. Army Seeks "Balance"
It would be a heck of a command and leadership development exercise. Throw a military unit into action against a diffuse and unconventional foe. Then add a second fight against a similar enemy. Sustain operations at a pace for which the unit has not ever...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Aircraft Operations: Taking the EC145 to New Heights
Over 50 years after it was founded in 1954, the air wing of France’s Gendarmerie Nationale – a national police force belonging to the Defense Ministry and primarily tasked with policing outside cities and large towns – is partway through an...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Customer Satisfaction: On The Rise
When it comes to market perception of helicopter manufacturers, commercial helicopter operators still consider Bell the best of the pack. In nine key areas, commercial operators say, Bell Helicopter comes out on top in six: customer support, parts...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Helicopter Booster
The former Boundary Layer Research’s strakes and fin kits have impressed operators with their performance benefits. Now the company wants to get credit for those benefits in the books. "I just don’t understand how they can fly." When...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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R&D: Beneficial Bird
R&W gets an exclusive rundown on Piasecki Aircraft’s latest effort to develop a compound helicopter THE PIASECKI VECTORED-THRUST DUCTED PROPELLER (VTDP) compound-helicopter demonstrator, dubbed the X-49A in May 2003, was conceived to answer a need...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Helicopter Heroism: HOGE Sling Rescue at 18,040 Ft
IT WAS MIDDAY ON AUG. 8, 2005 when Lt. Col. Rashid Ullah Beg got the call to rescue a mountaineer from an elevation of 20,670 ft (6,300 m) on Nanga Parbat. The Pakistan army aviator at once made a few calculations and concluded it was impossible to hover his...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Emergency Medical Service: Justifying the Helicopter
IN WEIGHING WHAT HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES should consider in deciding whether investment in a helicopter air ambulance is justified, you are confronted with a fundamental question: why bother? After all, there hasn’t been a new, hospital-based helicopter...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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40 Years Retrospective: Much Done, Much Remains
THE 1960S PROVED TO BE A PIVOTAL DECADE FOR THE helicopter industry. As the Vietnam War escalated, the versatility of the helicopter was demonstrated time and time again. With new technology came new applications and the helicopter was used for everything...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Airborne Law Enforcement: Guarding the Final Frontier
The Hueys and crews of Space Gateway Support provide security and logistics for America’s human and robotic space venturers — tasks that have been transformed in the post-September 11, 2001 world. ON THE MORNING OF MAY 22, THE PHONE rang in an old...
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