Category: Helicopters

Bell Helicopters’s new twin engine offering, the Bell 429, will not be heading to Australia in the near future for a demonstration tour despite this month making its first appearance in the region at the 2010 Singapore Airshow. “We were hoping for a 429 tour in the first half of this year but unfortunately that

Lockheed Martin and Kaman have successfully demonstrated an unmanned variant of Kaman’s K-Max helicopter to the US Marine Corps for its unmanned cargo helicopter requirement. The K-Max, fitted with both autonomous, and line-of-sight and datalink remote control, systems, flew a series of demonstration flights at the US Army’s Dugway proving ground in Utah in late

The US Navy has taken delivery of its 50th MH-60R Romeo helicopter from systems integrator Lockheed Martin during a ceremony on February 3. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed

The USAF has ditched the CSAR-X project to find the next generation of combat search and rescue helicopter, and instead will buy more Black Hawk helicopters and modify these for the role. Speaking to US media, USAF Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz said “a successor model” of the current HH-60 Pave Hawk CSAR variant