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Monday, January 5, 2009
DRS Wins OH-58 Optics Support Contract
DRS Optronics of Palm Beach, Fla has received a “new firm-fixed-price” and cost plus fixed fee contract for maintaining the mast-mounted optics system used... [read more]
January 1, 2009
Rotorcraft Report: Capabilities Based Assessment
NEWS A little-noticed provision in the fiscal 2009 defense authorization bill has set in motion the most ambitious project in years to divine and define the future for military vertical lift aircraft. The goal of the Pentagon-led Future Vertical Lift...
January 1, 2009
Rotorcraft Report: Jury Rules in Honeywell vs Sandel Dispute
PRODUCTS After three court appearances and one jury trial, defendant Sandel Avionics of Vista, Calif. prevailed in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Honeywell International. The $10.6 million suit, which was filed in 2002, alleged that Sandel’s...
January 1, 2009
Rotorcraft Report: Iraq Wants Bell 407s
MILITARY Congress has been notified that the Government of Iraq is interested in buying more than two-dozen Bell 407 armed reconnaissance helicopters. The 26 aircraft...
January 1, 2009
Military: On the Horizon?
The outlook for U.S. military rotorcraft programs as the Obama administration comes to power might look bleak at first glance. Incoming President Obama’s defense team inherits two costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a plan Obama supports to expand the...
December 30, 2008
Pirate Attack Thwarted by Helo
A helicopter, dispatched from the German Navy frigate Karlsruhe, ended pirates' plans to rob a merchant ship near the Somalian coast. The use of...
December 30, 2008
Canada Waits for the Cyclone
Sikorsky is working on the 28 CH-148 Cyclones that the Canadian government contracted, but the manufacturer will be four years late now and isn't planning on delivery until...
December 30, 2008
Canada Waits for the Cyclone
Sikorsky is working on the 28 CH-148 Cyclones that the Canadian government contracted, but the manufacturer will be four years late now and isn't planning on delivery...
December 19, 2008
Unmanned Rotorcraft Shifts Gears in Flight
This week, Boeing announced that its A160T Turbine Hummingbird, an unmanned rotorcraft, reached the technological goal of shifting gears in flight. “Being able to shift gears in flight is the final...
December 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: Sikorsky to Upgrade Colombian UH-60s
MILITARY Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS), a subsidiary of Stratford, Conn.-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, won a multi-million dollar contract to convert Colombian Air Force UH-60A...
December 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: Amphibious Ship Designed to Carry V-22
MILITARY The U.S. Navy has launched its new San Antonio Class amphibious assault support ship, the first warship of its kind designed to carry and support the Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor. The...
December 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: Bell Helicopter Announces Deep Job Cuts
COMMERCIAL | MILITARY In the wake of the Pentagon’s cancellation of a contract with Bell Helicopter to build the new Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) for the Army, the Texas-based helicopter manufacturer announced 500 jobs cuts, mostly in the...
December 1, 2008
Rotorcraft Report: Dart Named Distributor for Spectrolab
PRODUCTS Dart Helicopter Services (DHS) of Piney Flats, Tenn. has been named as an authorized distributor of Spectrolab’s popular line of illumination products. Sylar, Calif.-based Spectrolab, a subsidiary of Boeing, manufactures the Nightsun...
November 25, 2008
New Army Helo
The North Carolina Army National Guard received a UH-72A Lakota helicopter Monday afternoon at...
November 24, 2008
New Army Helo
The North Carolina Army National Guard received a UH-72A Lakota helicopter Monday afternoon at...
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