All Helicopters articles – Page 239
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Eurocopter's new EC120 under test
Andrzej Jeziorski/PARIS Franco-German helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter has successfully completed the first flight of the EC 120 light helicopter. A 20min flight was performed on 9 June from Eurocopter's Marignane site in France, with test pilot Etienne Herrenschmidt and engineer Bernard Cortain at the controls. The EC120 ...
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Romania to buy 96 AH-1F Cobras
ROMANIA IS TO procure 96 AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters in a major co-operative programme agreed between the country's Government and manufacturer Bell Helicopter Textron. The aircraft will be licence-produced in Romania, and deliveries will begin in 1999. IAR Brasov will be responsible for the airframe and Turbomeccanica the ...
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Police Eye Helicopter
Japan's National Police Agency has issued a requirement for five new light helicopters. The Eurocopter/Kawasaki BK.117, McDonnell Douglas Explorer and Sikorsky S-76, are expected to be considered. Source: Flight International
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Ametek to combine Sentinel with Primus
AMETEK, THE Pennsylvania-based avionics manufacturer, is to integrate its Sentinel data acquisition unit (DAU) with Honeywell's Primus 2000 XP avionics system for the Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet. The DAU will be used to monitor inputs from the electronic engine-controller, electrical system, air-data computer, hydraulic and other ...
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Sextant avionics for Mi-35M
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has joined forces with Russian design bureau Mil and manufacturer Rostvertol to modernise and upgrade the Mi-35M helicopter. The work includes equipping the helicopter with night/adverse weather-combat capability. Sextant, which will lead several Thomson-CSF units involved in the programme, is to develop and integrate a new ...
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EC-120 first flight expected
The first flight of the EC-120 light helicopter jointly developed by Eurocopter, Singapore Technologies Aerospace and China's CATIC and HAMC was expected on 10-11 June. The EC-120, seen minus its all-composite main rotor at Eurocopter's Marignanne, France, site shortly before the Paris air show, is due for delivery in late ...
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Thomson UAE Order
The United Arab Emirates' seven Eurocopter AS.565 Panther anti-surface-ship-warfare helicopters now on order are to be fitted with the Thomson-CSF helicopter self-protection system (HSPS). The HSPS incorporates wide-band-signals reception, instantaneous frequency measurement and system control. According to Patrick Henin, assistant director of Thomson's Radar and Countermeasures division, this ...
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Back onparade
Exhibitors are returning to the air show scene after years of cost cutting. Forbes Mutch/LONDON It has been an up-hill struggle for air shows in recent years, with recession-hit manufacturers demonstrating a reluctance to exhibit in the numbers and opulent style familiar during the 1980s. Air-show exhibitors ...
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Sikorsky swims ashore
A SIKORSKY S-61N helicopter has probably beaten the water-taxiing record for a non-float-equipped aircraft by travelling some 30km (16nm) to land on an isolated part of the Namibian coast in southern Africa. The Court Helicopters aircraft, operating between an offshore drilling and the remote Arandis base 50km inland ...
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Hiller Aircraft flies again
HILLER AIRCRAFT has flown its first new-build UH-12E3 light utility helicopter after the production machine was rolled out earlier this month from its assembly site in Newark, California. The helicopter is the first of a batch of 20 machines to be built for a Thai investor group which ...
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Bridging the gap
The launch of the PW500 series completes a turbofan product range for Pratt & Whitney Canada. Graham Warwick/MONTREAL In a single month in 1994, Cessna launched two business jets and gave Pratt & Whitney Canada the first two applications for its new PW500 small turbofan. ...
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Bell saves time with rapid casting
Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH BELL HELICOPTER Textron is using stereo-lithography (SL) and rapid casting to meet its schedule for production of the Model 407 light helicopter, deliveries of which begin early in 1996. The manufacturer estimates that it has saved six months by using QuickCast technology developed by ...
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H+S AVIATION/McAlpine
Michel Dubarry, managing director of McAlpine Helicopters (right), and Alan Robinson, managing director of H+S Aviation, have signed a three-year exclusive agreement for H+S to provide repair and overhaul services for McAlpine's Allison 250 engine requirements. McAlpine is UK and Ireland distributor for Eurocopter and H+S is Europe's largest Allison ...
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JetRanger replacement helps drive 407 market
PRODUCTION OF Bell Helicopter Textron's Model 407 light helicopter, launched in February, is sold out until mid-1997. The company has firm orders for 105 aircraft, with company demonstrators and other commitments taking the number of delivery positions accounted for to 140. Production at Bell's Canadian plant will ...
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MDHS speeds up 600N programme programme
McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has accelerated development of the MD600N (formerly the MD630N) to bring forward US certification to the third quarter of 1996. Several design changes have been announced by the Mesa, Arizona-based company,, including a switch to a more powerful, digitally controlled, version of the Allison 250 ...
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Security fears hit Olympic flight plan
SECURITY CONCERNS are posing early hurdles for the plan to install a helicopter short-haul transport system at Atlanta, Georgia, in time for the 1996 Olympic Games. The project, backed by the US Federal Aviation Administration and the Helicopter Association International (HAI) and seen as a blueprint for similar ...
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Dangerous occupation
Seismic activity - the search for oil and gas - is booming in Latin America, although it is not an area where exploiting natural resources is easy. The environment is among the most inhospitable in the world, with a huge variety of terrains and climates. The two dominant ...
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UAE Panthers will have 'self protection'
THE SEVEN Eurocopter AS.565 Panther anti-ship helicopters ordered by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to be fitted with the Thomson-CSF Agrion maritime-patrol radar and what the company terms "a new helicopter self-protection system." The system incorporates wide-band signal reception, instantaneous frequency-measurement and a system-control capability. Patrick Henin, ...
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Helicopter GPS Evaluation
Systems Management of Maryland has installed an AWOS 3500 automated surface-observing system at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, in support of the Federal Aviation Administration's global-positioning-system helicopter non-precision approach programme. The Madison-based University's heliport is the third to evaluate GPS approaches under the FAA rotorcraft programme. ...