Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider rigid coaxial rotor prototype made its first flight from the company’s Development Flight Center at West Palm Beach, Florida, on May 22, testing the new design’s airworthiness in the low-speed flight environment. The S-97 program’s chief pilot Bill Fell and co-pilot Kevin Bredenbeck flew N971SK for almost an hour, putting the Raider
Caboolture’s Airwork Helicopters has recently obtained a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) and Australian Parts Manufacturing Approval (APMA) from CASA to manufacture a new composite tail rotor blade for the Bell 206 series of helicopters. Following four years of development and certification, Airwork Helicopters has commenced production of the Kevlar and carbon fibre blades which founder
Hawker Pacific will demonstrate a Bell 407GX helicopter at the 2015 Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show. The aircraft sales and support company says the 407GX seats up to six passengers and had the performance, reliability, speed and manoeuvrability for a range of missions and payloads. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login
There was the rare sight of three NSW Ambulance Greater Sydney Area HEMS AW139s at the scene of a single motor vehicle accident on April 23 at Wandandian, south of Sussex Inlet on Sydney’s south coast. Two Bankstown Airport-based AW139s and one from the Illawarra Regional Airport landed in a heavy vehicle inspection bay adjacent
Airbus Group Australia Pacific and the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) have commissioned a joint helicopter support centre at Brisbane Airport that will be staffed by a mixture of industry and military personnel. The move is intended as a way of optimising support for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) fleets of ARH Tiger attack helicopters and
This dramatic image taken by Aircrewman David Gardiner shows CareFlight’s rapid response BK117, callsigned ‘CareFlight 4’, shortly after landing on the busy Pennant Hills Road in Sydney’s north-west late in the afternoon on April 18. Police had stopped northbound traffic to allow the BK to land briefly to drop off its medical crew to attend to a