helicopter

It seems the Ka-52 series is going back to Kamov's roots. http://www.newsbcm.com/doc/999 While it does not strike me as a great 'coast guard' helicopter, it would be a wonderful 'pirate guard' helicopter. Of course a couple of those in the US Coast Guard, might make the fast boat challenge...

Hi, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a029375.pdf

I think we all know the successful attempts to obtain / purchase foreign combat types ... lesser known are such attempts esp. during the brief Sino-Western-honeymoon during the 1980s like the Harrier and the French deliveries of helicopters ... we also know that prior to the J-10 there were...

Dear Boys and Girls, here is a picture with a caption in French of what I believe to be the Sikorsky S-61N full-size mock-up brought to the 1959 Paris Salon; it shows an aerodynamic saucer-shaped fairing covering the main rotor hub. The accompanying article describes the Sikorsky S-61N as being...

Sikorsky - Advanced Composite Airframe Program (ACAP) - S-75 crash test at NASA/Langley Research Center, 1999 88 hi-res pics (about 25 Mb TIFF each)

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French about the Piasecki Pathfinder compound helicopter prototype. It isn't "secret" and it isn't a "project"...... The article comes from the 15th October 1967 issue of Aviation Magazine International...... Terry (Caravellarella)

...the last known I-number: I-20 a light aircraft from 1947.

Since the debate on capabilities and such was begining to overcome the LHX thread I thought I would attempt to move it here. To start the conversation I found this little bit over at AW&ST (...

Hi, in 1948,the USAF issued a specification for a very large transport helicopter which could carry forty troops,I don't know the tenders in this competition,but I suggest that; Piasecki PV-15 (YH-16) Sikorsky DS-?, Bell D-? Hiller Model-? Kaman K-?, McDonnell M-? Hughes ? Gyrodyne GCA-...

CIERVA LECTURE Piasecki: Pioneers in Progress for More Than 60 Years John Piasecki, President & Chief Executive Officer, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation Tuesday 6 October 2009 No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ http://www.raes.org.uk/conference/indexlect.html

Hi, here is a strange project for Blackhawk,it can carry a light tank. http://www.geocities.com/air_mech_strike/aircraftphotos.htm

Nice images of a variety of Bell Tilt-rotor projects courtesy of NASA Ames Imaging Library System (http://ails.arc.nasa.gov)

Stephen Trimble's last revelations http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/05/bell-helicopter-reveals-hybrid.html Bell Helicopter reveals "Hybrid Tandem Rotor" to replace AH-64 and UH-60 The mysterious sign in Bell Helicopter's exhibit space today at the Army Aviation Associaton...

Hi, the lastest configuration for EH-101 as anti-submarine helicopter in 1980. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980%20-%202745.html

Hi folks, today while flicking through magazines at a bookshop near my local train station, I saw a picture of the Boeing Model 222 tilt rotor aircraft featured in an article about the "X-series Aircrafts (Part 19): AD-1 and XV-15" published in the German magazine "Fliegerrevue" Issue 02/08. At...

Well since the "What Ifs" is down for a bit, and because I thought I would post these here for giggles, here is some work I doodled in power point while laboring through more than one exceedingly long and boring briefing. Anyway "What If!" the Sikorsky folks had been able to get past some of...

Hi, the Aerospatiale AS35 was twin engined high wing commuter aircraft,it can carry 30/40 2000 hp,1700 hp or 1500 engines as its sizes. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1979/1979%20-%204243.html?search=AEROSPATIALE%20AS35%20AIRCRAFT

Hi, the Bell Helicoptere Corporation designed a new concept for atomic-powered VTOL transport helicopter,it had 300 ft length,500,000 1b weight and estimated speed of 200 mph, it was look like to me as flying ship. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1960/1960%20-%200793.html

Messrs Buttler and Gibson have put out a blinder with Hypersonics and Missiles, and effectively completed the trilogy on the UK's teeth weapons in the air. Matched with Brown and Moore's Rebuilding the Royal Navy for sea stuff their works pretty much cover the UK waterfront. However, judging by...

Boeing FTR (Future Transport Rotorcraft) program targets were: - Replace aging CH-47 fleet - Deploy Brigade from Fort to Fight in 96 hours - Carry the Future Combat System Payload of 20 tons in a C130 size box - Vertical Hover capability FTR Configuration Options were: - FTR Advanced Theater...