Hints and tips:
...Among the substantial sums paid to Mr Golding “purportedly by way of consultancy fees” were £1.2m to enable him to buy a Eurocopter EC135 T2, and £384,000 to buy a lorry....
...A product of the École Polytechnique, the top school for French technocrats, Mr Faury is an engineer by training and joined Airbus’ helicopter division, then Eurocopter, in 1998....
...Our small group was, however, attracting some raised eyebrows....
...Airbus Helicopters came up with one of the more elegant — and evolutionary — systems with the experimental X3 when the company was still called Eurocopter....
...This is not the Airbus group’s only interest in speed....
...It carries six aluminium-hulled tenders, and has a six-seater Eurocopter EC130-B4 parked on deck....
...“Eurocopter does not recommend any further action for the other EC135 aircraft in service around the world....
...Worldwide, the market for civil helicopters returned to modest growth of 11.4 per cent, according to US-based aviation analyst Teal Group, driven by energy industry and public sector demand....
...Most Eurocopter Super Puma helicopters and their successor variants in the UK were temporarily grounded after a recommendation by the Helicopter Safety and Steering Group....
...Mr Faury, who was head of Eurocopter’s research and development and chief engineer for the EC-225 before becoming chief executive in May, has given himself three to five years to refresh the group’s product...
...group, reported “cracks had been identified on the lower rotor hub shaft flange” during a routine inspection....
...It was the fifth North Sea accident involving a Super Puma helicopter – made by Eurocopter, part of the EADS group – since February 2009....
...France-based Airbus Helicopters – whose name was changed from Eurocopter in January in a wider renaming of its parent EADS, the aerospace and defence group, to Airbus Group to tie it to its best-known subsidiary...
...This contributed to falling sales and earnings at Eurocopter in the first quarter....
...CHC operates a range of helicopters manufactured by Sikorsky, Eurocopter, Textron and AgustaWestland....
...The group is expected to have three subsidiaries in the future – Airbus, the passenger jet manufacturer, Eurocopter, the helicopter maker, and a defence and space unit....
...The Eurocopter division will be renamed Airbus Helicopters, contributing €6bn in revenues and employing 23,000....
...Even the Eurocopter division is to be renamed Airbus Helicopter. “The ‘euro’ name doesn’t buy us anything in the world any more,” Mr Enders said....
...The other manufacturers were EADS’s Eurocopter, which came out empty-handed, and Sikorsky of the US, which will supply Bristow with 11 S-92s. The contract will run from April 2015 to 2026....
...Mr Enders said: “We will not run out of operational challenges any time soon, especially at Eurocopter and Airbus . . . Aircraft deliveries are key.”...
...Scotty Group, the data networking specialist, has gone cap-in-hand to its directors for the second time in 18 months after warning that delays to a contract with Eurocopter have left it in “urgent need of...
...Shortlisted companies Aberdeen-based Bond Offshore Helicopters, Bristow Group of the US and Canada’s CHC have all been in talks with the Department for Transport and are expected to submit their first-round...
...Defence & Space – a Munich-based combination of the Cassidian defence unit, the Astrium satellite business and Airbus Military, which makes transport aircraft – and Airbus Helicopters, formed of the old Eurocopter...
...Sikorsky, part of United Technologies in the US; AgustaWestland, a division of Italy’s Finmeccanica; and EADS’s helicopter unit Eurocopter have all offered their models to the bidders....
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