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May 5, 2008
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...

May 1, 2008
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...

May 1, 2008
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...

May 1, 2008
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...

May 1, 2008
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...

May 1, 2008
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...

May 1, 2008
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...

April 29, 2008
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...

April 28, 2008
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...

April 17, 2008
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...

April 15, 2008
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...

April 14, 2008
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...

April 11, 2008
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...

April 10, 2008
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...