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Rotorcraft Report: German Army CH-53GA Goes Airborne
Military | Airframes A crowd of more than 150 people witnessed the initial flight of the Eurocopter CH-53GA—the medium lift transport for the German Armed Forces—on Feb. 10...
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Rotorcraft Report: Lockheed Martin Delivers 50th Multimission MH-60R to U.S. Navy
Lockheed Martin has handed over the 50th MH-60R helicopter with an equipment package designed to help protect the U. S. Navy fleet from hostile submarines and surface ships. Sikorsky built the newest member of the Seahawk family, with advanced mission systems...
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Rotorcraft Report: DoD Budget Seeks Funding for 117 Helicopters, 35 V-22s
Military | Airframes Soldiers from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit survey the area around Corail, Haiti in late January before boarding a Bell-Boeing MV-22. The U.S. Department of Defense budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes a request for 30 MV-22B...
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Rotorcraft Report: Boeing Apache Trainers Come Online
Training | Military Simulators Capt. Jeremy Duff, a battle commander for the 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, uses an Apache Longbow Crew Trainer (LCT) to prepare for various missions in Iraq. U.S. Army/Terry Moore The U.S...
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Rotorcraft Report: Assembly of First S-70i Wraps Up
Military | Airframes PZL Mielec in Poland has nearly finished putting together the initial S70i Black Hawk...
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Rotorcraft Report: Sikorsky’s Innovations Targets Unmanned Black Hawk
Military | Technology A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk from Task Force 34, 1st Battalion-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion, flies above a mosque during an early 2009 mission in Iraq. Sikorsky is investing $1 billion in its new Innovations segment, which will...
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Rotorcraft Report: BAE Countermeasures System Flies on CH-47D
Military / Mission Equipment Rockville, Md.-based BAE Systems successfully installed its Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (ATIRCM) system on U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook aircraft in December 2009. Now, the U.S. Army has reported its first success in...
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Rotorcraft Report: German Army CH-53GA Goes Airborne
Military | Airframes A crowd of more than 150 people witnessed the initial flight of the Eurocopter CH-53GA—the medium lift transport for the German Armed Forces—on Feb. 10...
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Rotorcraft Report: Goodrich Hands Over Milestone AN/AVR-2B
The U.S. Army has taken delivery of the 500th Goodrich Corp. AN/AVR-2B laser...
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Rotorcraft Report: Assembly of First S-70i Wraps Up
Military | Airframes PZL Mielec in Poland has nearly finished putting together the initial S70i Black Hawk...
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CSAR – Not Just a ‘Spur of the Moment’ Thing
Military | Combat SAR There were at least two factors behind last year’s decision to terminate the funding for the U.S. Air Force’s Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) aircraft. The first was the obvious one that it saved money by an incoming...
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Military Insider: The Irresistible March of the Drones
Military | Unmanned Aircraft Military helicopter pilots beware—the day of the unmanned helicopter force could be fast approaching. In 1999 the U.S. Army fielded only three Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), said LTG James Thurman, Deputy Chief of Staff, at...
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Rotorcraft Report: Army Seeks Expanded Aviation Brigades
Military | Attack The U.S. Army, gearing up to support the surge of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, is reorganizing its active duty Combat Aviation Brigades to create a 12th CAB, and may request fiscal 2011 funding for a 13th. The expansion aims to reduce the...
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Rotorcraft Report: Gates Loves Helicopters
Military | Government Agencies It’s nice to have friends in high places, and helicopters have one in the Pentagon, the chief of the Army Department’s aviation division assured the annual Association of the United States Army aviation symposium...
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Rotorcraft Report: UK Places Order for 22 Boeing CH-47F Chinooks
Military | Airframes Just as 2009 was drawing to a close, the U. K. Government announced that it would purchase 22 new Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopters to supplement the 38 Chinook HC2/HC3 aircraft that the Royal Air Force (RAF) already operates. The RAF...
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Rotorcraft Report: Sikorsky, Goodrich Partner on HUMS
Services | Maintenance Goodrich Sensors and Integrated Systems has inked a memorandum of understanding with Helicopter Support Inc., the support and distribution company of Sikorsky, to jointly promote a health and usage management system (HUMS) for the...
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Rotorcraft Report: DARPA Seeks Car with Helicopter Capability
Military | Technology The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hosted a Jan. 14 workshop in Arlington, Va. related to a broad agency announcement (BAA) for the Transformer (TX) program. Government representatives explained the vision and...
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Rotorcraft Report: Helibras to Upgrade Brazilian Panthers
Military | Overhaul & Repair Brazil’s Helibras has obtained a contract to upgrade 34 Eurocopter AS365Ks. Eurocopter’s subsidiary in Brazil, Helibras, has secured a contract to...
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Rotorcraft Report: Critical Design Review For CH-53K in 2010
Military | Airframes Sikorsky Aircraft’s CH-53K heavy lift helicopter program is on target for a Critical Design Review this year. The announcement comes after an...
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Program Insider: Army Ponders Kiowa Warrior Upgrade
The U.S. Army may put new engines and a new drive train on its workhorse OH-58 Kiowa Warrior armed scout helicopters to give them “increased power margins to meet the high and hot demands of 6,000 feet and 95 degrees Fahrenheit, which are some of the...
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