Forgive us - but when confronted with a press release jam-packed with acronyms (TTH, DGA, NAHEMA, ALAT etc) the will to live is quickly eroded. Nonetheless, we present to you the first NH Industries NH90 Tactical Troop Transport in final operational configuration for the French armed forces. And yes, that's a TTH in FOC to you.
Credit: Eurocopter
Pictured here are a Boeing AH-64 Apache, Eurocopter AS532 Cougar and a Boeing CH-47 Chinook of the Royal Netherlands Army Air Force on exercises at Volkel earlier this year, photographed by Flightglobal Airspace user Ghostplanes.
Credit: Airspace user Ghostplanes
Because it's friday and because of the sheer amount of effort that's gone into building it - here's an example of what you can do with lego if you put your mind to it. In this case, a pretty detailed reproduction of a Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey.
Credit: Mad physicist photostream on Flickr
For more of these fantastic models - click here (and be consumed with jealousy)
In the light of the first delivery of the Block III variant of Boeing's Apache to the US Army yesterday, here's a nice shot of the attack helicopter (also featuring an AAI RQ-7 Shadow) on test at Dugway's Michael Army Airfield. (And for anyone wanting a somewhat low-tech version of same - click here).
Credit: US Army
Slight poetic licence there, and there seems to be no fearful symetry to behold in this picture, but the Eurocopter Tiger looks the part. At the moment Eurocopter is pushing them to the South Koreans for that country's likely AH-X contest, but there are rumours, meanwhile, that the German armed forces are looking to cut their order. Watch this space.
Credit: Eurocopter
Although debate rages between the US and UK parts of the office as to whether it's pronounced 'shinook' or 'chinook', what is certain is that Boeing's venerable Chinook turns 50 today. To celebrate this, Boeing has also opened its recently renovated, for a cost of $130 million, production site in Ridley Township, PA. Pictured is a CH-47A belonging to the US Army in about 1961.
Credit: Boeing
What with it being DSEI in London this week, here's a Royal Air Force 230 Squadron Puma HC1 pictured flying past The Shard skyscraper during a training flight over the capital. The sortie included low and medium level transit flights, landing at un-prepared sites and navigation exercises involving a refueling stop at RAF Marham, an over-flight of RAF Wyton and flying through the London heli-lanes.
Credit: SAC Phil Major, RAF
As the Association of the US Army (AUSA) hosted an annual aviation symposium on 13-14 January, army aviation leaders bluntly called attention to the branch's future predicament.
Col Randolph Rotte,
aviation division chief on the army's headquarters staff, issued a call
for immediate action. There is currently no strategy to replace the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, one of which is seen below operating in Afghanistan, as well as Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64D Apache. Read more...
(Photo: ISAF)AgustaWestland's second AW159 utility helicopter has made its flight debut in support of the British Army/UK Royal Navy Lynx Wildcat programme. The aircraft - dubbed TI2 - underwent general handling checks on its debut, and "performed as expected", the company says.
Achieved at its Yeovil site in Somerset on 14 October, the event
should be followed by the end of the month with the addition of the last
aircraft from a three-strong test fleet. These should log a combined
600 flight hours, AgustaWestland says, with aircraft TI2 to be dedicated
to testing the AW159's avionics equipment. Continue reading...
(Photo: AgustaWestland)
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