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Bell working on 412EP engine and cockpit upgrades

Bell working on 412EP engine and cockpit upgrades

17-Dec-2010Source: Bell

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced its plan to extend the capability and performance of the widely respected Bell 412EP helicopter, which will be available to customers in 2012. A Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) project that will extend the wide range of missions that can be performed by the 412EP is... Read more

P&WC to invest $1 billion in R&D over five years

P&WC to invest $1 billion in R&D over five years

15-Dec-2010Source: Pratt & Whitney Canada

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) announced today that it will invest more than $1 billion in research and development over the next five years to develop the next generation of high-performance aircraft engines. The investment includes a $300 million repayable contribution from the Government of Canada under the Strategic Aerospace and Defense Initiative (SADI) program.... Read more

Eurocopter X3 achieves 180 knots ahead of schedule

Eurocopter X3 achieves 180 knots ahead of schedule

10-Dec-2010Source: Eurocopter

Marignane, December 9, 2010 – Step 1 speed objective of 180 kts is attained ahead of schedule for this innovative rotary-wing aircraft. Eurocopter’s X3 high-speed hybrid helicopter demonstrator, which performed its maiden flight on September 6, 2010, has reached on November 29th the program’s Step 1 speed objective: attaining a true airspeed of 180 kts... Read more

PWC and R-R Canada open cold weather engine test facility

PWC and R-R Canada open cold weather engine test facility

9-Nov-2010Source: Pratt & Whitney Canada

The Global Aerospace Centre for Icing and Environmental Research (GLACIER) Inc., a limited joint venture company comprising Rolls-Royce Canada and Pratt & Whitney Canada, has officially opened its new, state-of-the-art cold weather testing and research facility for aircraft engines, in northern Canada. The new facility specializes in ice tests for civil aerospace engine certification programs,... Read more

Eurocopter pledges dramatic increase in R&D spending

Eurocopter pledges dramatic increase in R&D spending

28-Oct-2010Source: Flightglobal

Eurocopter chief executive Lutz Bertling believes he has a winning formula to see his company safely through the recession: drastically increase spending on research and development... Read more

Sikorsky Innovations completes testing of hub-mounted vibration system

Sikorsky Innovations completes testing of hub-mounted vibration system

14-Oct-2010Source: Sikorsky

STRATFORD, Conn.–Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft, has completed rig testing of a Hub Mounted Vibration Suppression system (HMVS), designed to eliminate vibration and deliver a smoother helicopter ride. The effort is jointly funded by Sikorsky and the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD). Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.... Read more

EMS industry benefits from continuous product development of EC135 and EC145

EMS industry benefits from continuous product development of EC135 and EC145

12-Oct-2010Source: American Eurocopter

American Eurocopter’s commitment to continuous product development for its EC135 and EC145 will ensure these rotary-wing aircraft remain the helicopters of choice for the U.S. emergency medical services (EMS) industry. The EC135 is the leader in its twin-engine category and a preferred product for helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) operations in North America, accounting for... Read more

AgustaWestland co-sponsors $100K Homeland Security research awards

AgustaWestland co-sponsors $100K Homeland Security research awards

7-Oct-2010Source: AgustaWestland

The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation in partnership with AgustaWestland North America proudly recognize innovations in homeland security, announcing four winners for their achievements in efforts designed to protect the United States and its citizens. “This year four $25,000 Homeland Security Awards are being sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, an independent Federal government agency,... Read more

Northrop Grumman and US Navy partner for Advance Rotorcraft Development

Northrop Grumman and US Navy partner for Advance Rotorcraft Development

30-Sep-2010Source: Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC 60.63, -.00, -0.01%) has partnered with the U.S. Naval Aviation Center for Rotorcraft Advancement (NACRA) to provide its Digital Avionics Suite technology for retrofitting NACRA’s UH-1N helicopter as an avionics test bed for future rotary wing hardware and software developments. Northrop Grumman is supplying NACRA with a stand-alone Digital Avionics Suite... Read more

Eurocopter test flies X3 hybrid – huge potential, but lacking in beauty

Eurocopter test flies X3 hybrid – huge potential, but lacking in beauty

28-Sep-2010Source: Eurocopter

Eurocopter has begun test flights of the X3 demonstrator for its innovative High-speed, long-range Hybrid Helicopter (H3) concept, which combines excellent vertical takeoff and landing capabilities with fast cruise speeds of more than 220 kts. The X3 demonstrator is equipped with two turboshaft engines that power a five-blade main rotor system and two propellers installed... Read more

Eurocopter to disclose ‘significant milestone’ on Monday

Eurocopter to disclose ‘significant milestone’ on Monday

24-Sep-2010Source: AIN

Industry observers believe the company could finally unveil its plans for a compound helicopter, which is known in the industry as the X3.... Read more

Bell names team to lead innovation efforts

Bell names team to lead innovation efforts

22-Sep-2010Source: Bell

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, is pleased to announce that it has named its 2010 Engineering Technical Fellows. This team of technical leaders is tasked with building and maintaining a 20-year technology roadmap that will introduce new products and improve existing platforms. Chosen based on their depth of engineering design scholarship and... Read more

HAL calls in Italian consultants to get Dhruv to fly faster

HAL calls in Italian consultants to get Dhruv to fly faster

13-Sep-2010Source: Business Standard

The Italian consultants Avion will now scrutinise the Dhruv’s Integrated Dynamic System to diagnose the problem.... Read more

Eurocopter test flies EC145 with fenestron tail rotor

Eurocopter test flies EC145 with fenestron tail rotor

17-Aug-2010Source: Flug Revue

Is this just a concept or a new model – and if so, will it replace the current model or be sold alongside the traditional style tail-rotor?... Read more

Sikorsky Introduces Electric Helicopter Demonstrator –  Project Firefly

Sikorsky Introduces Electric Helicopter Demonstrator – Project Firefly

30-Jul-2010Source: Sikorsky

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft, today officially introduced “Project Firefly,” an all-electric helicopter technology demonstrator, at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture exhibition. Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). The Firefly Technology Demonstration Aircraft at EAA is part of the world symposium on electric... Read more

Russia researches possibility of 350 km/h helicopter

Russia researches possibility of 350 km/h helicopter

20-Jul-2010

Russian Helicopters is examining the technological possibility of a helicopter which can reach speeds of up to 350 kilometers per hour, company spokesman Roman Kirillov told RIA Novosti on Friday... Read more

Boeing frets as US cuts helicopter R&D funding

Boeing frets as US cuts helicopter R&D funding

20-Jul-2010Source: Marketwatch

Sales of new military helicopters have been running strong due to demand from the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Boeing Co. sees a time within the next decade when sales could slump significantly.... Read more

Bell and National Research Council Canada sign Research Framework Agreement

Bell and National Research Council Canada sign Research Framework Agreement

19-Jul-2010Source: Bell

The National Research Council Canada (NRC) and Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that they have signed a 10-year research framework agreement to identify and undertake work of mutual interest in the research and development of technology solutions for the aerospace industry. This agreement will streamline the process of setting up fee-for-service and... Read more

Sikorsky launches Project Firefly electric helicopter demonstrator

Sikorsky launches Project Firefly electric helicopter demonstrator

19-Jul-2010Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft, announced today from the Farnborough International Air Show that it has developed an all-electric helicopter technology demonstrator. Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). The FireflyTM Technology Demonstration Aircraft will be unveiled on July 26 at the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) AirVenture exhibition... Read more

HAL confronts Turbomeca over Shakti development costs

HAL confronts Turbomeca over Shakti development costs

1-Jul-2010Source: Business Standard

An outraged HAL board, having decided against paying so much to Turbomeca, has approached other engine-makers — including General Electric, Honeywell, Rolls-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney — for an engine for the LuH.... Read more

AgustaWestland wins national award for innovation in Italy

AgustaWestland wins national award for innovation in Italy

10-Jun-2010Source: Varese News

Award was presented to the AgustaWestland CEO Giuseppe Orsi by President Giorgio Napolitano during an official ceremony during the National Day of Innovation... Read more

TTTech delivers distributed IMA test bed to Sikorsky

TTTech delivers distributed IMA test bed to Sikorsky

8-Jun-2010Source: TTTech

TTTech in Vienna, Austria delivered a distributed integrated modular avionics (IMA) test bed to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Distributed IMA is a class of integrated architectures which inherits all benefits of IMA and enables efficient design of distributed systems with mixed criticality functions. TTTech officials made the announcement at the Avionics USA conference in San Diego.... Read more

EADS unveils hybrid eco-helicopter concept

EADS unveils hybrid eco-helicopter concept

8-Jun-2010Source: FlightGlobal

EADS Innovation Works has unveiled a concept helicopter featuring a diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system that it claims has the potential to halve fuel consumption compared with a typical twin-turbine helicopter such as the EC135.... Read more

ProMetal RCT and Sikorsky recognized by AHS for R&D Achievement

ProMetal RCT and Sikorsky recognized by AHS for R&D Achievement

20-May-2010Source: ProMetal RCT

The ProMetal Rapid Casting Technology division of The Ex One Company, LLC (with locations in Irwin, PA, Troy, MI and Houston, TX) in partnership with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation was awarded the coveted Robert L. Pinckney Award by the Vertical Flight Society of the American Helicopter Society. The award is given in recognition of notable achievement... Read more

Russia plans to develop 5th-generation ‘stealth’ helicopters

Russia plans to develop 5th-generation ‘stealth’ helicopters

14-May-2010Source: RIA Novosti

“We are working on the concept of the fifth-generation combat helicopter,” the paper quoted the company’s CEO, Andrei Shibitov, as saying at a news conference in Moscow, confirming that the company was going to spend some $1 billion on the project, with more investment expected to be allocated from the state budget.... Read more

Students Apply Science and Imagination in NASA Tilt-Rotor Design Contest

Students Apply Science and Imagination in NASA Tilt-Rotor Design Contest

29-Apr-2010Source: NASA

Some helicopters of the future will look very different from today’s, at least as imagined by high school students for a NASA aeronautics competition. NASA challenged students to write a paper about a civilian aircraft that could hover, rescue up to 50 survivors of a disaster, land on ground or water, travel at least 920... Read more

Sikorsky targets Q3 for 250kt X2 flight

Sikorsky targets Q3 for 250kt X2 flight

23-Apr-2010Source: FlightGlobal

Sikorsky is targeting the third quarter to achieve the 250kt (460km/h) goal for its X2 high-speed prototype, after several delays in the flight-test programme.... Read more

Hindustan Aeronautics to go it alone on observation helicopter

Hindustan Aeronautics to go it alone on observation helicopter

18-Mar-2010Source: Flightglobal

Hindustan Aeronautics has decided against seeking an international partner for its light observation helicopter programme, and will undertake the development by itself.... Read more

Sikorsky X2 Aims for World Speed Record

Sikorsky X2 Aims for World Speed Record

25-Feb-2010Source: Aviation Week

The Sikorsky X2’s attempt to break the world speed record for rotorcraft later this year could determine the future path of helicopter development at the Connecticut-based company.... Read more

Second Prototype in Sikorsky S-76Dâ„¢ Helicopter Program

Second Prototype in Sikorsky S-76Dâ„¢ Helicopter Program

23-Feb-2010Source: Sikorsky

The second prototype aircraft in the S-76Dâ„¢ helicopter program has entered the test flight program, with a third soon to follow, as the program that is producing the next generation model of the popular S-76® helicopter nears completion of its first fuselage for a production aircraft. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. Kuwait... Read more

Sikorsky Innovations Launched to Redefine Future of Vertical Flight

Sikorsky Innovations Launched to Redefine Future of Vertical Flight

1-Feb-2010Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today launched its new technology development organization – Sikorsky Innovations – at a program attended by more than 100 government, education, business, technology and other officials at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford.  Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). The mission of Sikorsky Innovations is to develop and mature... Read more

German aerospace agency shows how to quieten helicopters

German aerospace agency shows how to quieten helicopters

26-Jan-2010Source: FlightGlobal

Flight-testing in Europe has shown that 50% reductions in a helicopter’s acoustic footprint during landings are possible.... Read more

Air Methods tests air filter for Eurocopter EC135

Air Methods tests air filter for Eurocopter EC135

21-Jan-2010Source: Chaffee County Times

Air Methods Corporation of Englewood was testing for the performance of an air filter that protects the engine from sand and dust, which reduce efficiency of engines.... Read more

FAA Efforts On Alternative Aviation Fuels Lauded

FAA Efforts On Alternative Aviation Fuels Lauded

15-Jan-2010Source: FAA

The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Initiative (CAAFI), a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sponsored effort to develop environmentally-sound, sustainable-alternative jet fuels, has received “one of the most coveted and valued honors” by a leading aviation-industry publication.   Air Transport World’s Joseph S. Murphy Industry Service Award is given to an individual or an organization that has performed... Read more

Bell merge Engineering and XworX in re-organization announcement

Bell merge Engineering and XworX in re-organization announcement

8-Jan-2010Source: Rotornews

Jeff Lowinger, executive vice president, Engineering, is pleased to announce the following organizational changes in conjunction with the Integration of the Engineering and XworX organizations... Read more

DLR on the way to the silent helicopter

DLR on the way to the silent helicopter

9-Dec-2009Source: Rotorhub

The FHS (Flying Helicopter Simulator) Helicopters do not have to be loud. This is the conclusion of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) working on the FRIENDCOPTER project.... Read more

Eurocopter lightning test results verify finite element analysis

Eurocopter lightning test results verify finite element analysis

1-Dec-2009Source: FlightGlobal

Lightning strike tests at Eurocopter’s Donauwörth facility have verified finite element analysis accuracy for carbonfibre structure current flow simulation, according to a European research consortium... Read more

UTRC Pioneers Fuel Cell-Powered Rotorcraft Flight

UTRC Pioneers Fuel Cell-Powered Rotorcraft Flight

30-Nov-2009Source: UTRC

United Technologies Research Center achieved first flight of a hydrogen/air fuel cell-powered rotorcraft. The successful technology demonstration was accomplished using a remote-controlled electric helicopter model modified to incorporate a custom Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell power plant.... Read more

EADS CEO Seeks French Government Funding For Helicopter R&D

EADS CEO Seeks French Government Funding For Helicopter R&D

11-Oct-2009Source: Wall St Journal

European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co NV’s (EAD.FR) chief executive has appealed to French parliamentarians for funding from a planned state loan to finance research and development into future generations of helicopters, it was revealed Friday.... Read more

Sikorsky Begins Testing of Active Rotor System to Improve Helicopter Performance

Sikorsky Begins Testing of Active Rotor System to Improve Helicopter Performance

28-Aug-2009Source: Sikorsky

As part of an effort to improve helicopter performance, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has begun whirl testing a demonstration rotor system with active flaps. The effort is jointly funded by Sikorsky and the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD). Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.... Read more

Sikorsky up human-powered helicopter prize from $20K to $250K

Sikorsky up human-powered helicopter prize from $20K to $250K

28-Aug-2009Source: Connecticut Post

On Thursday, Sikorsky Aircraft increased the prize money for the Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Competition from $20,000 to $250,000. The contest is more than two decades old and no one has met the requirements of hovering about 10 feet in the air for 60 seconds.... Read more

Moog Aerospace Test Solution To Support Ambitious Helicopter Program from Korean Aerospace Research Institute

Moog Aerospace Test Solution To Support Ambitious Helicopter Program from Korean Aerospace Research Institute

18-Aug-2009Source: Moog Aerospace

Moog’s Industrial Group has delivered an aerospace test rig to the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) that will perform a wide range of structural and fatigue tests for helicopters.... Read more

Flight Test Program Enters High Gear for Sikorsky S-76D

Flight Test Program Enters High Gear for Sikorsky S-76D

17-Jun-2009Source: Sikorsky

Two more prototypes are poised to join the S-76D(TM) helicopter test program as Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. continues envelope expansion on the newest version of the popular S-76(R) helicopter... Read more

Boeing Begins Work On DARPA DiscRotor

Boeing Begins Work On DARPA DiscRotor

24-Mar-2009Source: Aviation Week

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