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...Lockheed Martin, meanwhile, whose subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft makes the successful Black Hawk helicopter, has so far held off saying whether it will bid and which industrial partners might be involved....
...In early February, India announced it would purchase $2.4bn in Sikorsky naval helicopters from the US. These military acquisitions partly stem from India’s growing apprehensions about China....
...Is this going to persuade the Americans to drop the tariffs and start negotiating a new EU-US deal on government support to aircraft manufacture?...
...Legal experts warn that researchers and corporations are exploiting social media, scraping photos without the knowledge of the people who posted them....
...It would have taken 10 people a month because I can use a computer, and they couldn’t,” says Rogers, of the Aerospace Corporation....
...We want to show them how to interface with it and to feel they have some agency instead of being victims of technologists and remote corporations.”...
...On December 2 1954 I flew by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) London to Bahrein (old spelling) and this was my first flight in an aircraft....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
...Military buyers, understandably excited by the idea of aircraft that are both fast and can land vertically, have funded the best-known combination of helicopter and aeroplane, the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey...
...Russian and Nato military aircraft and ships come within dangerous proximity of each other....
...This month the sale of Sikorsky by United Technologies Corporation to the Lockheed Martin aerospace company was confirmed — and Lockheed’s mainly defence focus is unlikely to mean there will be a push for...
...It said the buyback included a $6bn accelerated share repurchase using the net proceeds from its sale of helicopter maker Sikorsky....
...The western military market is now in a downturn, and this is a factor behind plans unveiled this week by United Technologies Corporation, the elevator and aircraft engine maker, to spin off Sikorsky, its...
...Much more recently, the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor military aircraft has had a big share of problems and cost over-runs but the programme, undertaken jointly with Boeing, has been a good platform for Bell’s...
...Most Czech companies are involved in multinational, joint programmes or research projects and co-operate with top corporations such as Airbus Group, GE Aviation, Honeywell, Sikorsky and Embraer....
...The model has been a long while in development from the Bell-Boeing military V-22 since AgustaWestland took over the project completely in 2011 from its partnership with Bell....
...Because of long lead times, even aircrafts still on multiyear contracts from the US, such as Bell Boeing’s V-22 tilt rotor, a helicopter propeller aircraft hybrid, need to quickly secure international customers...
...Sikorsky of the US disagrees, and its compound helicopter is moving forward quite quickly....
...Thus the V-22 Osprey military Tilt-Rotor morphs from helicopter to turboprop aircraft. But others have also done it in a less expensive way....
...The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey is another. It is astonishingly capable, but also astonishingly expensive, as only military machinery can be....
...Corporation....
...A simpler idea is the X-49 compound helicopter from another vertical lift pioneer, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation....
...There’s no other aircraft in that category.” One of the closest relations to the hybrid helicopter-aeroplane Bell-Boeing V-22 is the Harrier “jump-jet”....
...Gavin was in charge of the 7,500-man team from the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on New York’s Long Island that had won the contract to build lunar landing modules for the Apollo flights....
...Sikorsky, the subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation of the US, saw the first flight of its S-76D in February this year....
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