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October 1, 2005
Unprecedented Helicopter Force Takes Field in Katrina's Wake Hurricane Katrina destroyed, and helicopters by the score swept in behind her to save and bring succor. In the wake of that devastating Aug. 29 maelstrom and the flooding that followed it, helicopter owners and operators of every size and stripe flew to the grief-stricken regions of Louisiana and Mississippi to help in any way they could. Nearly...October 1, 2005
Helicopter EMS operators around the world face a host of challenges, including figuring out--in the U.S.--how to boost safety and economic survivability at the same time. Helicopter emergency medical service providers throughout the world are wrestling with the challenges of how to keep their operations safe and sufficiently funded. The sector's predicament has vendors of everything from aircraft and EMS...September 1, 2005
Shamed Forgive that faint grin on my face up there to the right. It's completely inappropriate this month. There should be a picture there of me hanging my head. I did a shameful thing at the recent Airborne Law Enforcement Assn. annual convention back in July in Reno, Nev. This is no off-color story about "what happens in Reno stays in Reno." If only that were the case. No, this is a genuinely...September 1, 2005
Human factors is a key to understanding how skilled pilots slip into dangerous situations and finding ways to help them and their crews reverse course. The Jetranger came in hot and low, 100 kt. at 10 ft. agl. Just before reaching the refueling point, the pilot pulled up the nose and put in hard left cyclic to turn the aircraft on the proverbial dime for a 180-deg. turn before landing to fuel up and go...September 1, 2005
Great Days in Australia The highly successful Heli Pacific Conference--held July 12-13 in Coolum, Queensland--owed that success to the near doubling of Australia's helicopter fleet in little more than a decade. Other keys to its success were the input from Rob Rich, president of the Helicopter Assn. of Australasia (HAA), and the military day hosted by Brigadier Tony Fraser, commander of 16 Brigade...September 1, 2005
Bell Beats Boeing, Aims for ARH Deliveries Next Year Bell Helicopter plans to start delivering Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter to the U.S. Army starting next year. The U.S. Army picked Bell in late July to build its next-generation armed reconnaissance and scout helicopter. Plans call for the company to deliver 368 of the aircraft between next year and Fiscal 2013. The Army awarded Bell an initial...August 1, 2005
SEARCH-AND-RESCUE CREWS ARE benefiting from ongoing advancements in communications and navigation technology and now stand to get a little more help with a less exotic but critical item on their equipment lists--their aircraft hoists. The growing use of personal locator beacons continue to transform search-and-rescue operations around the world, with the more capable waveform of the 406-MHz. units...August 1, 2005
FOR JUST ABOUT A WEEK IN JUNE every two years, the aviation world is focused on the ramps and runways at the heart of Le Bourget. At that famed airport outside Paris where Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo transatlantic crossing nearly 80 years ago, the latest in fighters, airliners, private aircraft, gliders and helicopters swoop and dive twice each afternoon during the biennial Paris Air Show...August 1, 2005
CORRECTION The Pacific Rim column on page 56 of our July 2005 issue incorrectly included the photograph of a gentleman who is not the column's distinguished author, Barnie O'Shea (shown above), but Mark Ogden, who formerly penned the column. We apologize to both and our readers. CLARIFICATION Through an editing error, the item on American Eurocopter's newly certificated night-vision goggle training omitted...August 1, 2005
IT MAY BE THAT FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S EPIC DRAMA "Apocalypse Now" is to Vietnam what today's "Reality TV" shows are to...well, reality--but who can forget the opening scene of Army Huey's passing across the screen, their blades dramatically cutting in slow motion through the air? Equally memorable is the image of the Korean War OH-13 landing on the hillside helipad as Hawkeye Pierce...July 1, 2005
New Rolls-Royce Engine Aimed At Light Trainers Rolls-Royce is developing a 300-shp. engine for the light civil helicopter trainer market. Scott Crislip, president of Rolls-Royce Helicopter and Small Gas Turbine Engines, said the RR300 would be a derivative of the Model 250, an engine that started out at 250 shp. but now covers the 420-715-shp. range. "There is a lot of interest, specifically in the...July 1, 2005
After 50 years of patrolling Germany's borders, the Bundesgrenzschutz may soon take on responsibility for policing that nation's interior as well. If you were to ask a group of pilots to list the largest civilian operators flying within Europe, it is unlikely that many will come up with the German Federal Border Guard--a force that operates more than 100 helicopters, all on the German civil register. The...July 1, 2005
Sikorsky Vows to Break `Pure Helicopter' Sound Barrier Sikorsky is challenging the conventional thinking that a rotorcraft cannot be built to exceed 200-kt. cruise speed without sacrificing the abilities that make a helicopter unique and valuable. "Today's top cruise speeds of 150-170 kt. are only incrementally faster than they were decades ago" due to the limits of conventional rotor systems...June 1, 2005
Whether the Paris Air Show is of huge value or a dead waste of time and money depends on whom you ask. In 1908, The Frenchman Gustave Rives was holding his second Paris Motor Show in the Grand Palais, just off the Champs Elysees. As an added attraction, he decided to add some of the marvelous new machines called aeroplanes to the exhibition, barging several aircraft up the Seine and carting them over to...June 1, 2005
Helicopters as Commodities? One of the more intriguing comments made about the U.S. presidential helicopter decision is that the choice of airframe didn't really matter because helicopters have become commoditized and only exist to carry around their high-tech systems payloads. Another said the contract went to Lockheed Martin because its systems-integration expertise, in the final analysis, mattered much...June 1, 2005
Happy With What We Have? A nice thing about being in flight testing is that you get to see lots of new ideas and technology--some very promising, some flights of fancy. Some have immediate potential to improve aviation and some seem to be solutions looking for problems. In the helicopter world, we don't see a lot of this new technology put into practice. We lag far behind our fixed-wing brethren in the...May 1, 2005
The U.S. Army's soon-to-be-decided competitions for new reconnaissance and light utility helicopters could tip the balance of market share among manufacturers. The U.S. Army's solicitation for a new armed reconnaissance helicopter is concise and simple. The Army "seeks to acquire and field an ARH that will utilize Non-Developmental Item (NDI) aircraft and associated support equipment to conduct armed...May 1, 2005
The U.S. Army updates aircraft survivability equipment and reconsiders airborne weapons for full-spectrum military operations. The U.S. Army has so far lost about 15 helicopters to a mix of high- and low-technology air defenses in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Late-model man-portable air defense systems (manpads) and simpler, unguided weapons have downed or damaged Apaches, Black Hawks, Chinooks and Kiowa...May 1, 2005
Promising Times A promising year lies ahead for the helicopter training community. In both the offshore and aeromedical services sectors in the United States, operators and customers are lining up behind efforts to redress operational problems in part with improved training. In this month's Rotor & Wing Helicopter Training Special Report, we learn that Bell Helicopter is pushing Frasca International to...May 1, 2005
Kaman Getting K-MAX Pilots Ready For Fire Season With a relatively dry winter in the northwestern United States, firefighting companies are gearing up for a bad fire season. Kaman Aerospace Corp. doesn't specifically train pilots for fighting fires, but it does train them to transition to the unique, long-line capabilities for water bucket operations used to fight fires with the K-MAX . All of Kaman's...
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