Content Archive: February 2010

Rolls forecasting ‘robust’ helo growth

Turbine-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce predicted robust growth for the global helicopter market over the next decade at a Heli-Expo press conference yeste

Sikorsky escapes 2009 relatively unscathed

Speaking yesterday at Heli-Expo 2010, Sikorsky president Jeffrey Pino found looking in the rear-view mirror a fair indicator of what’s to come, and as he p

CAE adds Bell 412 simulators, inks training deal with Bell

CAE and Bell Helicopter announced here yesterday that Bell is providing aircraft systems and performance data and technical support for the Bell 412 traini

Thommen spotlights redone Russian searchlight system

Revue Thommen, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of aircraft instruments, air-data systems and components, is at Booth No.

Bell 429 is first helo with MSG-3

“The Bell 429 is the first helicopter to have a maintenance program designed under MSG-3,” Neil Marshall, program director for the Bell 429 project, told <

AW unwraps its newest 109 Grand

To the accompaniment of multicolored lights and music, AgustaWestland unveiled its new AW109 Grand New here yesterday.
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R66 certification ‘very close’

Robinson Helicopter founder Frank Robinson said certification of the company’s new turbine R66 was “very close” and that the company planned an initial pro

Heli-Expo’10 to build on last year’s success

With an attendance expected to be within 1 to 3 percent of last year’s more than 17,000 and the increase in exhibitors filling the floor of the George R.

Inlet-barrier Filters Now for AW109 and EC135

Donaldson is introducing two new products to its line of helicopter inlet-barrier filters (IBF).

Eurocopter retools, readies for biz upturn

At Eurocopter’s annual Heli-Expo breakfast press conference yesterday, CEO Lutz Bertling said the company is using the current economic downturn to retool