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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Program Insider
PROGRAM UPDATES: Attack-Turkey was expected to finalize its Attack/Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopter (ATAK) competition at last month's Defense Industry Executive Committee meeting, but military officials objected to the short-listing of the Denel AH-2A Rooivalk and AgustaWestland's A129 Mangusta... [read more]
October 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: U.S. Military Aviation Marks Centennial
MILITARY U.S. military services on Sept. 6 hosted a celebration in Washington of the celebration of the centennial of military aviation in the nation. Orville Wright left his home in Dayton, Ohio in mid-August 1908 for Washington, where he would conduct...
August 28, 2008
USMC Flying the UH-1Ys
The helicopters, built by Bell, began operating this month. They can fly farther, faster and have a greater load capacity, 125 percent higher, than the UH-1N (the UH-1N is being rebuilt and redesigned...
August 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: Contracts
The Brazilian navy signed a letter of offer and acceptance with the U.S. government covering the planned purchase of four Sikorsky Aircraft S-70B Seahawks valued at almost $195 million (311 million reais). The letter also covers options for a further two...
July 8, 2008
MH-53 Joins USAF Museum Fleet
After a daring but unsuccessful raid to free U.S. POWs in North Vietnam in 1970 and subsequent tours in Bosnia and Iraq, a Sikorsky Aircraft MH-53 has retired to...
July 3, 2008
Boeing and the Blimp?
Some of us who headed to Montreal in early May for the American Helicopter Society International's annual gathering were intrigued by hints that Boeing would break some news there. Specifically, a well-informed insider or two at the Army Aviation Assn of...
June 17, 2008
Boeing’s Return to the Civil Market?
A recent briefing by the aerospace company for investors and financial analysts has some observers wondering if that will happen. Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, was pressed at that event on whether Boeing would sell its...
June 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: Program Updates
Attack — Boeing plans to fly its Block 3 AH-64D Apache Longbow on July 9, under an accelerated schedule sought by the U.S. Army. The new Apache, developed with money rolled over from the cancelled RAH-66 Comanche program, includes new software upgrades...
June 1, 2008
Rotorcrat Report: Four Rotors Afloat?
A four-engine cargo plane that can land on a ship? Might happen, if Bell Helicopter and Boeing keep progressing on their development of the Quad Tilt-Rotor (shown at right). Project Manager Alan Ewing said the industrial team is moving toward a prototype that...
June 1, 2008
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...
May 30, 2008
JHL Dead? Reports May Be Premature
Widespread reports that the Joint Heavy Lift program led by the U.S. Army is dead may be premature. Senior Army leaders have, for months, referred to "the program formerly known as JHL," saying it has been succeeded by the Joint Future Theater Lift...
May 21, 2008
Ground-Based Powerline Detector Advances
U.S. FAA officials responsible for regulation of obstacle marking and lighting are weighing whether to approve a Norwegian-developed system as an alternate means of marking powerlines. Oslo-based OCAS developed the...
May 20, 2008
Sikorsky Pitches CH-53K to Turkey
Sikorsky is vying with Boeing to sell heavy-lift helicopters to Turkey, according to the newspaper Today’s Zaman...
May 14, 2008
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...
April 11, 2008
A New Heavy-Lift Study, With a Twist
The U.S. Army and Air Force have agreed on a plan to answer the question of what the next-generation, intra-theater lift aircraft will look like, and it has a twist. The proposed Joint Future Theater Lift study was laid out in an agreement two weeks ago and...
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