All Helicopters articles – Page 234
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FlightSafety expands Falcon training
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is expanding its Falcon Jet training centre at Teterboro, New Jersey, to house additional simulators for Dassault business jets. The expansion will provide room for three new simulators, plus flight-training devices and classrooms. FSI's Simulation Systems division is already building a Falcon 2000 full-flight simulator ...
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Sextant smartens helicopter displays
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE is developing a high-resolution liquid-crystal multi-function display unit for helicopters, as part of the Avionique Nouvelle (AN) series suite of new-generation helicopter avionics it has designed in partnership with SFIM Industries. The SMD45H flight-control display system is due to be certificated in early 1997, says Paris, France-based Sextant. ...
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Japanese research budget covers new missile development
JAPAN'S TECHNICAL Research and Development Institute (TRDI) has secured funding to begin development of a new medium-range surface-to-air-missile (SAM) and to upgrade the Shinmaywa US-1A amphibian. Money for the two new projects is included in TRDI's recently approved '164.1 billion ($1.52 billion) budget for fiscal year 1996/7. The ...
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Robinson design cleared by NTSB
A SPECIAL US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation has exonerated the Robinson R22 and R44 light helicopters of suspected design defects, but it recommends that tougher flight-training requirements remain in force. The ruling comes after an investigation which started in 1994 after a series of fatal ...
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Helipro Shortsky enters service
HELIPRO International's shortened Sikorsky S-61 "Shortsky" has entered heli-logging service with two Canadian operators. The first aircraft, a converted S-61N, entered service with VIH Logging on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in mid-March, just a month after the type's first flight (Flight International, 28 February-5 March, P9). ...
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Russian helicopter army in decline...
CONCERN OVER the state of combat readiness and morale of the Russian army's aviation corps has been made public in a letter sent by senior officers to Gennady Seleznev, chairman of the lower chamber of the Russian parliament. The letter says that the bulk of the helicopter fleet ...
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Lift for Bell 430
Lucas Industries has been selected to supply the rescue-hoist system for the Bell Helicopter Textron Model 430 helicopter. The system will be powered by a 28V DC motor, with a cable length of up to 300ft (100m), and may also include a Lucas-designed motorised boom. Source: ...
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Howell first
Colgate-Palmolive has placed the first order for Howell Instruments' turbine-outlet temperature gauges and cycle-monitoring system. The instrumentation will be fitted to AlliedSignal LTS-101s powering its Eurocopter BK117 B2 helicopter. Source: Flight International
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Eurocopter
Roy Swetnam has joined American Eurocopter, of Dallas, Texas, as airborne-law-enforcement specialist. Formerly chief pilot with the Texas Department of Public Safety, he has also been vice-president of the Airborne Law Enforcement Association. Source: Flight International
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S-TEC launches helicopter autopilot
US GENERAL-AVIATION autopilot specialist S-TEC, has introduced its first helicopter stability- and control-augmentation system (SCAS). The system will become available for the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger in the third quarter of 1996 and approval for other airframes will follow, the Mineral Wells, Texas-based company says. S-TEC says that the ...
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Bell Helicopter cracks Latin America market with 407
Bell Helicopter Textron has sold some 50 Model 407 light single-turbine helicopters in Latin America. Of more than 160 firm orders received for the new aircraft, 40 are from customers in Brazil, the company says - with at least ten of those coming from first-time customers. The US ...
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Pakistan interest focuses on CN-235MPA
PAKISTAN IS INTERESTED in acquiring up to four IPTN-produced CN-235MPA maritime-patrol aircraft, and also in up-grading its Eurocopter SA.330J Puma transport helicopters. Indonesian aerospace company IPTN, which builds the NAS.330 and the improved NAS.332 Super Puma under licence, is understood to be discussing re-engineing the Pakistani helicopters ...
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Eurocopter aims for profit in 1998
FRENCH-GERMAN helicopter builder Eurocopter aims to break even in 1997 and turn a profit in 1998, despite recording another year of heavy losses. The Aerospatiale/Daimler-Benz helicopter joint venture reported a tenfold rise in losses to above Fr3.9 billion ($770 million) in 1995, although the figure includes a goodwill ...
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Peaks of promise
Deregulation is opening up Nepal to start-up airline operations. Paul Lewis/KATHMANDU FOR ADVOCATES OF A more-liberalised Asian aviation scene, the mountain kingdom of Nepal presents an encouraging picture. This impoverished nation of fewer than 21 million inhabitants supports seven domestic fixed-wing and helicopter operators, and ...
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PHI and FSI forge training link
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) and Petroleum Helicopters (PHI) have agreed to establish a joint helicopter aircrew and ground crew training programme. Integrated PHI flight training and FSI simulator training will be offered to helicopter operators. The link results from PHI's recent expansion from visual-flight-rules offshore-support operations into instrument-flight-rules emergency-medical ...
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Olympian effort
Atlanta businesses hope to rise above traffic problems caused by the Olympic Games - with the help of helicopters. Karen Walker/ATLANTA IT IS BEING BILLED as the largest organised event in history. The centennial Olympic Games will be staged in the capital of the USA's Deep South ...
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Decision pends on S-76 output
SIKORSKY WILL DECIDE within the next six months whether to increase production of its twin-turbine S-76 helicopter, which is scheduled to be about 24 aircraft this year. Mike Moran, Sikorsky's director for commercial programmes, says that Sikorsky has firm orders in 1996 for 11 Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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PZL-Swidnik works through SW-4 problems
Andrzej Jeziorski/SWIDNIK POLISH HELICOPTER manufacturer PZL-Swidnik is anticipating a second-quarter debut for its SW-4 light helicopter after rotor and vibration problems delayed the programme by more than a year. The first prototype of the four- to five-seat helicopter was completed at the end of 1994, and ...
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Eurocopter expects sales to stay flat
EUROCOPTER SAYS that 1995 was a "horrible year" for civil-helicopter sales, and the company is projecting flat sales for 1996. The Franco-German manufacturer's market outlook differs markedly from those of competing helicopter-makers, and is influenced by Eurocopter's reduced sales in North America in 1995. Worldwide, Eurocopter says, some ...
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Eurocopter and MDHS in noisy row
EUROCOPTER AND McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) have become embroiled in a row over, which of their products - the EC 135 and the MD900 Explorer - is quieter. Noise is one of the most competitive marketing issues among the new generation of helicopters. Eurocopter says that ...