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| 05.16.2008 |
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Boeing Resumes Work on Military Helicopters
Work on the two Chinook CH-47Fs at the Boeing plant in Ridley Township, Penn., stopped as suspicions of sabotage dominated an unfolding investigation into how the two military helicopters were damaged as they were nearing completion for an Army contract that...
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| 05.15.2008 |
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A Second Contract for U.S. Army Engine R&D
A Honeywell/Pratt & Whitney joint venture was awarded a $108 million contract by the U.S. Army for work on the Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine (AATE) technology demonstrator program. GE in September 2007 won the first contract under that program...
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| 05.14.2008 |
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How Do You Keep a COTS Helo FAA-Approved?
That's the question facing the U.S. Army National Guard as it prepares to field the UH-72A Lakota. The Army is acquiring that light utility helicopter, based on Eurocopter's FAA-certificated EC145, from a contractor team led by EADS North America (a branch of...
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| 05.14.2008 |
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The Latest Hazard? Wind Farms
The latest hazard to safe helicopter flight in the United States comes in the form of wind farms. These collections of modern-day windmills, seen as an environmentally friendly energy option to gas, coal, and nuclear powerplants, are proliferating. The U.S. Energy...
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| 05.08.2008 |
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Report: Lockheed to Pitch MH-60R to Australia
Lockheed Martin plans to brief Australian defense officials on its Sikorsky Aircraft MH-60R multi-mission helicopter as a possible replacement for the canceled Super Seasprite program...
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| 05.05.2008 |
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V-22 One-Engine Landing: Check
Check off an engine-out landing as a demonstrated capability of an operational and fielded V-22. During the recent deployment of the U.S. Marine Corps' Marine Medium Tilt-Rotor Sqdn 263 (VMM-263) to...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Program Insider: Programs Updates
Attack — The United States likely won’t fulfill Turkey’s request for AH-1 Cobras because it can’t spare the attack helicopters, according to press reports in Turkey. That nation asked for 12 of the Bell Helicopter aircraft in late...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Finland Takes First Troop Transport NH90
MILITARY | UTILITY Finland’s army has taken delivery of the first of 20 NH90 Tactical Troop Transports (TTT) under a renegotiated contract that compensated it for extensive delivery delays. Delivered from Eurocopter’s Marignane, France facility...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Canada Passes on UH-60Ls as Interim Lift Fix
MILITARY | UTILITY Canada is passing on an unsolicited offer from Sikorsky Aircraft of six UH-60L Black Hawks as an interim solution to its vertical-lift shortfall. Sikorsky offered the National Defence Dept. the aircraft in response to Canada’s need...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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India Plans 384-Helicopter Competition
MILITARY | UTILITY India is expected to release a request by this month for bids to supply its military with 384 light utility helicopters. The country’s defense ministry has decided to combine an Army requirement for 197 of...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Multi-Year Contracts Stabilize Programs
MILITARY | UTILITY The U.S. Army expects to save about $500 million by signing a five-year contract with Boeing to support the CH-47 Chinook next month. "We’ve estimated half a billion savings," Col. Newman Shufflebarger, Army Chinook project...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Joint Heavy-Lifter: No Flyoff, No Time Soon
Don’t look for the latest iteration of the U.S. joint effort to field a heavy-lift rotorcraft or short-takeoff/landing bird to produce a flyoff or an acquisition program before 2015. The previous, Joint Heavy Lift program, headed by the U.S...
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| 04.29.2008 |
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Report: U.K.'s Future Lynx May Die
The United Kingdom reportedly is considering canceling its £1 billion ($1.98 billion) Future Lynx program. Citing Defence Ministry sources, the London newspaper The Telegraph said it is “highly likely” that the program to acquire 70...
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| 04.28.2008 |
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X-Hawk Developer Eyes UAV Work
An Israeli research expects to know by June whether it will continue working with Bell Helicopter in developing its vertical-lift “fancraft” technology or find another U.S. partner. Yavne, Israel-based Urban Aeronautics...
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| 04.17.2008 |
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Report: U.S. Readies Chinooks for Canada
The U.S. military is readying older Boeing Chinooks for the transfer to Canada to provide helicopter support for its deployment of troops to Afghanistan later this year, according to The Ottawa Citizen. Citing private conversations...
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| 04.15.2008 |
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U.K.'s Prince William Earns Wings, Flies Into Storm
The United Kingdom's Prince William joined the ranks of helicopter pilots, receiving Royal Air Force wings from his father, Prince Charles, in an April 11 ceremony at RAF Cranwell. He then promptly flew...
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| 04.14.2008 |
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Sikorsky Nears First Flight of Fly-by-Wire UH-60M
Sikorsky Aircraft expects to make the first flight of a fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk by early May. That milestone on the latest upgrade of the Black Hawk for the U.S. Army could...
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| 04.11.2008 |
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Report: India Plans 384-Helicopter Program
India plans to put out a request for proposals for 384 light helicopters within two weeks, according to the news service Agence France-Presse. Quoting a source in that nation's weapons-contract clearing agency, it said the call for tenders was approved...
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| 04.10.2008 |
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U.S. Army Wants to Form 12th Combat Brigade
U.S. Army leaders are weighing how to best form a 12th combat aviation brigade (CAB). A new brigade is needed to maintain the 12-month rotation schedule of units serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Mundt, the director of Army...
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| 04.09.2008 |
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Boeing, Piasecki Eye 200-kt Apache, UAV
Boeing and Piasecki Aircraft are developing a $3 million plan to assess mating a version of Piasecki Aircraft's vectored-thrust, ducted propeller to its AH-64 Apache and possibly its A160T vertical takeoff and landing unmanned air vehicle. Boeing has...
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