Someone painted a -60 in aquaflage for the centennial of Naval aviation celebrations. It was as godawfully ugly as you'd expect.
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At Heli-Expo in Hotlanta this week. Sat down with Bell folks - they really believe they have TH-XX sewn up!
(And good for them that they do)
- Autopilot, avionics, and flying qualities have all successfully passed FAA review for SP IFR certification
- Only open item is flight testing for boost Off flying qualities in IMC.
- should be wrapped up in a few weeks with certification paperwork submitted in spring and approval early summer.
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(And good for them that they do)
- Autopilot, avionics, and flying qualities have all successfully passed FAA review for SP IFR certification
- Only open item is flight testing for boost Off flying qualities in IMC.
- should be wrapped up in a few weeks with certification paperwork submitted in spring and approval early summer.
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So what was the dark grey H-60?
@Pags its a run of the mill 80’s vintage A model - surplus - with steam guages old old style tape engine gauges - sounds like its being used in an FMS training role in Florida. There are a ton of vendors touting ability to upgrade avionics and expand operating envelope for surplus military 60A’s. More so. Some beautiful aircraft...
Bell Demo Pilot Cites 407GXi Stability, Digital Controls as Key Capabilities - Rotor & Wing International
ATLANTA — Proud Puerto Rican native Genaro Camacho, a demonstration pilot for Bell and a former U.S. Army OH-58D pilot, remembers flying 8 to 10 hours with his hands on the controls of the Kiowa Warrior in Afghanistan. Camacho hails from Ceiba, Puerto Rico, the site of the former Roosevelt Roads...
www.rotorandwing.com
I guess it's not the same one from earlier in this thread since it has a logo on the nose.
I believe that logo was applied once they got it here..
Gotcha.
Enjoy the ATL. I'm not sure if the Clermont is the same since the hotel got re-done. But you can always go enjoy the campus of the world's best engineering school.
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Airbus: "We are going with Pratt engines for our Navy TH-XX submission..."
www.ainonline.com
Airbus Taps Pratt for Navy Helo Trainer Entry | AIN
Airbus Helicopters has selected the PW206B3 to power the EC135 twin it is proposing for the U.S. Navy's new training helicopter
www.ainonline.com
Looks like Airbus brought their TH-XX aircraft to Heli Expo this morning....disappointed I missed it.
The PW200 is sort of in between the small and medium sized versions of the PT6. It's also completely unrelated (clean sheet design from around 1990). It's been one of the engine choices in the EC-135 pretty much since day one I think (the other choice is a Turbomeca product). When those engines were brand new in the 1990s, they were offered in the 135, the latest versions of the AW109, and the MD900.
The Coast Guard leased 109s with the Pratt engine. I think they had mixed experience with that engine-airframe combination... sorta to be expected when you take an executive helicopter and operate in off of cutter flight decks and fly low and fast in a saltwater environment... so I wouldn't hold that history against the engine.
The other dominant engines in this segment are the Turbomeca Arrius and the Allison 250 series.
(Full disclosure- I worked the PW206 in test cells in the 1990s, doing some development and certification work, but that was a long time ago.)
Wee-Man always amuses me.
Hopefully that means they'll change the tail boom colors, because if not, they won't be orange and white for very long.
Do you have to scrub the tailboom and clean the windows at end of shift like we did?