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MILITARY HELICOPTER DIRECTORY Bell has teamed with IBM and Kaman with Lockheed to bid for a $750 million US Marine Corps programme to upgrade the AH-1W with a "glass" cockpit, begin ning in 1999. The aircraft are being equipped with an Israeli-developed night targeting system. Bell also has teamed with GEC-Marconi Avionics to offer an improved version of the AH-1W, the Cobra Venom, to meet the UK's attack- helicopter requirement. Bell's other major combat-helicopter programme is the OH-58D Kiowa War rior. Remanufacture of OH-58As to D standard continues, against an Army re quirement for 597, with 351 so far funded through to mid-1995. Bell is proposing a light-utility version of the OH-58D to replace the US Army's Bell UH-1H Ir- oqouis helicopters. Taiwan is the first export customer for the Kiowa Warrior, with deliveries of 23 new-build aircraft having begun in 1993. HUEY REPLACEMENTS In a joint venture with engine manufac turer Textron Lycoming, Bell is offering to upgrade UH-lHs to UH-1HP Huey II configuration, by upgrading the l,000kW (l,400shp) T53-13B engine to l,350kW -703 standard. A demonstrator was first flown in August 1992. Two other UH-1 upgrades are available: Israel Aircraft Industries has joined the LHTEC/Global Helicopter Technology team offering the T800-powered Huey 800; while UNC Helicopter and GE Air craft Engines are offering the T700- powered Ultra Huey. The Huey 800 demonstrator was first flown in July 1992; the Ultra Huey in August 1992. Vought Aircraft continues to pursue the potential requirement to replace US Army UH-ls, proposing the Panther 800 — an LHTEC T800-powered development of the Eurocopter AS.565 Panther. A demon strator was first flown in April 1992. Bell was boosted in March 1993 by winning the US Army's 157-aircraft New Training Helicopter programme. Deliver ies of the TH-67 Creek, based on the commercial Model 206B-3 JetRanger, will begin in October, against an initial $85 million contract for 105 aircraft. The TH-67s are being built by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada, which also won a C$702 million ($927 million) Canadian Forces' contract in September 1992, to produce 100 CH-146 utility tactical-transport heli copters based on the commercial Model 412HP. The first CH-146 will be flown in February 1994, with deliveries beginning in August 1994. Renewed political support for the Bell- Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor resulted in award of an engineering and manufactur ing development (EMD) contract in Octo ber 1992. Bell and Boeing Helicopters will build four production-representative EMD V-22s, the first of which is scheduled to be flown in December 1996. Resumed interest in the V-22 has effec tively killed embryo efforts to develop a new medium-lift helicopter to replace US Marine Corps Boeing Cli-46 Sea Knights. Sikorsky Aircraft continues to seek mili tary and commercial launch customers and risk-sharing partners for its proposed S-92, an H-60 development with a larger fuselage and rear loading ramp. Turkey signed a $1.1 billion contract for 95 S-70A/28 Black Hawks in December 1992. Delivery of 45 helicopters, export versions of the UH-60, began immediately and assembly of the remaining 50 will begin in Turkey in late 1994. UH-60L production continues, against a US Army requirement from 2,253 Black Hawks by 2007. The Army is flight-testing a UH- 60Q air-ambulance version and a com- mand-and-control UH-60V is planned. Sikorsky continues to build SH-60B/F Seahawk and CFI/MH-53E Super Stallion naval helicopters for the US forces and for export. An upgraded CH-53E is being proposed, to replace the US Army's Boeing CH-47D Chinook transport helicopters. Boeing will complete modernisation of 472 Army Chinooks to D standard in December 1993 and is proposing an Advanced Chinook to replace the CH-47D after 2002. Based on the special-forces MH-47E, with glass cockpit, long-range tanks, four- blade rotors and uprated 3,700kW en gines, a prototype Advanced Chinook could be flown in 1997, Boeing says. Delivery of the initial 11 of a planned 51 MH-47Es began in 1992. Boeing will complete delivery of 30 Chinooks to two Far East customers in late 1993. The UK has ordered three new CH- 47Ds to supplement Chinook HC.ls being upgraded to CH-47D/HC.2 standard. Boe ing will deliver the first of nine Greek CH-47Cs, upgraded to D standard, in October 1993 and the last of the UK's upgraded Chinooks in December 1994. The Chinook is among several US military helicopters built under licence in Japan. Kawasaki is building 57 CH-47Js, while Fuji is building 88 Bell AH-1S Cobras and Mitsubishi is building almost 100 Sikorsky SH-60Js and more than 50 UH-60Js. Notes Power is quoted in kW (lkW=1.34shp); weights are in kg (lkg=2.21b); speed is quoted in knots (100kt=185km/h); range is quoted in km (lkm=0.54nm); LEGE (hovering in ground effect) and HOGE (hovering out of ground effect) are quoted in feet (100ft=30.5m). Where no HIGE is available service ceiling is quoted. BRUGGEMANN KG Passenger Cargo Conversion Kits Tiedown Hardware and Straps Cargo Seat Containers Manufacturer of: Tie-Down Hardware • Seat Containers Belly Nets • Cargo Tie-Down Straps Cargo Handling Systems • Ground- handling Equipment • Rescue Nets Helicopter Underslung Nets Parachutes • Repair and Maintenance Station. For furthecinformation please contact: BRUGGEMANN KG Am Kalkheck 2 D-58301 Herdecke (Ruhr) Germany Phone: (02330) - 97840 Fax: (02330) - 8244 Telex: 8239540 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 29 September - 5 October, 1993 35
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