All Helicopters articles – Page 237
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World record
Ron Bower and John Williams, flying a Bell 430, have set a round-the-world helicopter speed record - and the first for a westbound flight - of just over 17 days, breaking the existing record by seven days. The plan was to complete the flight from the UK's Fairoaks Airport in ...
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Eurocopter embargo payment judgment due in October
A FRENCH Commercial Court will judge on 3 October on whether Eurocopter should pay an international arms dealer for allegedly arranging the sale of 50 Super Pumas to South Africa during the United Nations arms embargo to the country (Flight Inter- national, 1-6 May). The ...
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MDHS transfers civil training to UND
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UND AEROSPACE is to provide all factory-authorised flight and maintenance training for McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems' (MDHS) civil aircraft. UND has ordered an MD500E, MD600N and MD Explorer from MDHS for use in the programme, and the aviation-education arm of the University of North Dakota will ...
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Base records
The British Aerospace Systems and Equipment (BASE) SCR500-660 combined cockpit-voice/flight-data recorder has been selected for the Sikorsky S-92 multi-purpose helicopter. The unit can store 1h of voice and 10h of data. The SCR500-120, meanwhile, which holds 2h of voice, has been picked by Aero International (Regional) for its Avro RJ ...
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Bell rings up sales for 427s during show
BELL HELICOPTER Textron won firm orders for 22 Model 427 light twin-turbine helicopters during the Farnborough air show. Orders for the eight-seat helicopter were placed by 11 Pacific Rim customers, seven European, three Middle Eastern and one from the USA. "These firm orders for a helicopter ...
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BASE records
The British Aerospace (Systems and Equipment) (BASE) SCR500-660 combined cockpit voice/flight data recorder has been selected for the Sikorsky S-92 multi-purpose helicopter. The unit is capable of storing 1hr of voice and 10hr of data. The SCR500-120, meanwhile, which holds 2hr of voice, has been picked by Aero International (Regional) ...
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Rogerson selected
Bell has selected the Rogerson Kratos NEOAV IIDS integrated display system for its 412EP utility helicopter. Bell has also selected the Rogerson primary flight electronic-flight-instrument system already selected for the Bell 430. The NEOAV IIDS has also been chosen by CASA for its CN212. Source: Flight International
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US-Canada JV helo bid
A new Canada-US team will enter competition for the Canadian Search and Rescue Helicopter programme by offering a derivative of Sikorsky's S-70A Blackhawk to meet the Canadian Forces requirements. ‘Team Maplehawk', a partnership between Sikorsky and seven Canadian firms, was announced here at Farnborough. ...
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Bell pilots clock new round-world record
At just after 13.00 on Tuesday, two tired but happy helicopter pilots landed at Fairoaks airfield near Farnborough. The fatigue was a result of having just spent 17 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes and 25 seconds flying around the world against prevailing winds, but they were smiling because their ...
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UK police forces order MD Explorers
THE UK'S POLICE Aviation Services has ordered ten McDonnell Douglas MD900 Explorer helicopters, making it the largest single purchase of the type to date in Europe. The first eight-seat helicopter will be delivered in June 1997 and enter service with the Wiltshire Constabulary Air Support Unit. The aircraft will be ...
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Second Comanche flight completed
BOEING SIKORSKY has completed the second flight of the first prototype RAH-66 Comanche scout/attack helicopter, some seven months after the first flight. The 54min flight took place at Sikorsky's West Palm Beach, Florida, flight-test centre on 24 August. The first flight took place on 4 January. The second ...
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Crew aids
Aircrew effectiveness is set to increase with the newly-available glass cockpits and digital avionics for Black Hawk helicopters, says manufacturer Sikorsky. The digital Automated Flight Computer System (AFCS) is designed to simplify pilot workload. Among the options on offer is an Electronic Flight Information System (EFIS) which will ...
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New Bell chimes in with a mock-up
Bell Canada has unveiled the first mock-up of the Bell 427 light, twin four-blade helicopter on its stand in Hall 4/D1/27. The announcement of the new aircraft development was made with Korean firm Samsung Aerospace at the Helicopter Association International Show earlier this year. This new model will ...
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Chinese sales breakthrough for fledgling gyroplane
Plans to establish an air taxi company in China are taking off here at Farnborough. News at the show is that Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) and Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) have signed a Letter of Intent under which SECC will buy 200 H2X commercial gyroplanes from GBA. ...
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Sikorsky's mass-transit milestone
Sikorsky announced a $17 million order for three of its new S-76C+ aircraft at the Show yesterday, describing the sale as a watershed event in the helicopter mass transit market. Sikorsky commercial programmes director Mike Moran gave details of the contract for three S-76C+ aircraft to HelikopterService, which will ...
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Bell pilots go west in bid to set a double record
If you have already captured the speed record for flying round the world in a helicopter, what might your next challenge be? Texas pilot Ron Bower knows that answer, do it again - this time in the opposite direction. Visitors at Farnborough will know today whether Bower and ...
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MDHS reveals MD600N design change
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has begun flight testing a series of modifications to the MD600N eight-seat civil helicopter following the crash of a prototype earlier this year. The changes are aimed at increasing the clearance between the main rotor blades and ...
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Mi-28N roll-out
Mil has rolled out the first prototype of the Mi-28N all-weather night-attack derivative of its Mi-28 Havoc attack helicopter. The helicopter is fitted with a mast-mounted radar, which operates in the millimetre and centimetre wavebands. An imaging-infra-red system is mounted in the nose. The helicopter has also been fitted with ...
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Rescue accident
A Eurocopter BO105 helicopter of Russia's central rescue detachment crashed on a test flight close to Fisht Mountain, Sochi, near the Black Sea. Deputy head of the detachment Igor Pokopchik was killed and four others seriously injured. Source: Flight International
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Irish SAR
Bond Helicopters (Ireland) has been awarded a contract by the Irish Government for search-and-rescue (SAR) services on the Atlantic coast. The Helicopter Services Group subsidiary will use a Sikorsky S-61N made available through the acquisition of a stake in South Africa's Court Helicopters in June. Source: Flight International