All Helicopters articles – Page 238
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French DGAC sets deadline for operators of EMS helicopters
14/08/96Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH emergency-medical-services (EMS) helicopter operators have until the end of the year to furnish plans on how they will meet the new European Joint Aviation Authorities JAR OPS 3 rules on twin-engined operations. The DGAC, France's certification authority, has told operators that they ...
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Testbed gear failure delays Comanche
A SECOND FLIGHT of the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche scout/attack helicopter has been delayed until after completion of tests to determine why a gear failed on the propulsion-system testbed. The YRAH-66 prototype has been grounded since its first hover test on 4 January. Resonance is blamed for the ...
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Farnborough '96 Preview
Aerospace is flooded with air shows, but the Farnborough '96 organiser promises an "essential"event this September Compiled by Kate Sarsfield/LONDON WITH THE AEROSPACE calendar awash with air shows, Farnborough '96 show organiser The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) is keen to promote its biennial show as ...
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EC135 certification
Eurocopter has received US certification for the EC135 light twin-turbine helicopter, powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206Bs or Turbomeca Arrius 2Bs. Source: Flight International
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C-130/helicopter clash explained
Sir - You published my letter "Keeping out of helicopters' way" (Flight International, 31 July-6 August, P46), about the RAF Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules being flown at low level through intense helicopter activity south-east of Silverstone, near Milton Keynes, UK, on 14 July, British Grand Prix day. I ...
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Suspect parts
The supply of "rogue" aircraft parts is back in the spotlight following New Zealand's grounding of some helicopters. Paul Phelan/NELSON A FATAL helicopter crash in New Zealand has triggered the grounding of about 5% of civil helicopters in that country, the suspension of engineers' licences ...
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Kaman
Charles Kaman, founder and chief executive of US helicopter company, Kaman of Bloomfield, Connecticut, is to be awarded the 1996 US National Medal of Technology in recognition of his "-revolutionising rotary-wing flight through innovations which have made helicopters more stable and easier to fly". Source: Flight International
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New Zealand bases
The RNZAF now has only three bases, including two in the North Island: Ohakea ("Air Attack" with 20 A4K Skyhawks and flying training with 17 Aermacchi MB339CBs and 15 CT-4B piston-engined Airtrainers). Whenuapai (Maritime - 5P-3K Orions, Transport - 5CH-130H Hercules and nine Andovers and helicopters. ...
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Japanese logger
Kyokuto Boeki Kaisha will hand over the first Kaman K-MAX for a Japanese customer on 10 July, following Japanese certification of the external-lift helicopter. Japan Royal will use the helicopter for heli-logging in the Yoshino area of Nara Prefecture. Source: Flight International
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US Border Patrol wants light single-turbine helicopters
AMERICAN Eurocopter, Bell Helicopter Textron and McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) are expected to bid for a US Border Patrol requirement for up to 45 light-observation helicopters. A request for proposals (RFP) is expected to be issued within two months for a light single-turbine, civil-certificated helicopter able to ...
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CHC helicopter
CHC Helicopter of Canada, parent company of UK helicopter company British International, has appointed Paul Conway managing director of the UK company. He was formerly commercial and deputy managing director of British International. David Wood has left the UK company. Source: Flight International
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Dragon Fly receives Italian certification
THE DRAGON Fly Model 333 two-seat helicopter received type certification from the Italian civil-aviation authority in June. The helicopter was developed by brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni, founders and owners of Dragon Fly. The Gobler-Hirth F-330A26AK single-engined (two-stroke piston) helicopter is built with a titanium frame and a glassfibre-reinforced plastic ...
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Tespar builds on sound principles
Andrew Doyle/LONDON NEW SIGNAL-processing technology able to monitor the health of mechanical systems and predict possible failures could have wide-ranging aerospace applications, according to Domain Dynamics of the UK. The company, marketing a system called the Tespar (time-encoded signal processing and recognition), developed by the ...
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IPTN takes delivery of its first Bell 430
BELL HELICOPTER Textron has delivered the first Bell 430 eight-seat intermediate twin helicopter to launch customer Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) of Indonesia. At the same time, the US helicopter company has agreed to extend its existing production arrangement with IPTN to include the manufacture of the ...
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Long - Lining
Peter Gray/BLOOMFIELD Exclusive: Flight International is the first magazine to flight test the Kaman K-Max AFTER BEING introduced to the differences between flying helicopters with tail rotors and hydraulic servo systems and Kaman Aerospace's intermeshing rotors and servo-tab systems in the H-43 Husky (Flight International, 1-7 May), Kaman ...
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Messier-Bugatti awarded S-92 contract
MESSIER-BUGATTI has been selected to supply wheels and steel brakes for the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter, in a 15-year contract potentially worth $15 million. The company, a division of French state-owned aero-engine maker Snecma, won the contract from Embraer of Brazil, the maker of the 19-seater's undercarriage. ...
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MDHS fights to keep MD600N on track
McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) is instituting "aggressive scheduling" to minimise the impact on the certification and delivery timetable of the crash of the second MD600N prototype. Key to the recovery plan, however, is the findings of the board set up to investigate the 28 May accident. Should ...
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Mitsubishi to roll out Japan's MH2000
Paul Lewis/TOKYO MITSUBISHI HEAVY Industries (MHI) expects to roll out its first prototype MH2000 helicopter by the middle of July, and to begin flight-testing the helicopter by the fourth quarter. The MH2000 is Japan's first indigenously developed civil helicopter and, therefore, its development and planned flight-test ...
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EC135 certificated
THE EUROCOPTER EC135 light twin-engined helicopter has been granted visual-flight-rules day/night certification by Germany's Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, in accordance with European Joint Aviation Rules Part 27 requirements. The approval covers the Turbom,ca Arrius-2B- and Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206B-powered versions of the seven- to eight-seat EC135, and follows a 1,000h flight-test programme ...