Penny & Giles has developed a rotary variable-differential transformer for the automatic roller-decoupler device of the McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, which, on damage to the primary flight controls, informs the flight-management system when control has passed to the back-up system. Production of the units will begin in November.
Source: Flight International
The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has ordered three additional Airbus Helicopters H225s, which will take its eventual fleet to 18 examples of the heavy-twin.
Advanced flight-control developer Skyryse is forging ahead with plans to bring to market by 2025 a Robinson Helicopter R66 light-single adapted with an innovative fly-by-wire system.
Canadian regulators have ordered operators of certain Bell 429 helicopters to perform urgent tail rotor blade inspections after defects were found in the manufacturing process.
