Helikopter - H160

Undertegnede og Reinhard Lillebø fikk i dag anledning til å besøke Airbus og Airbus Helicopters chalet og static display på Le Bourget. Det som fremkommer under er fra AIN, men jeg vil føye til en del info senere. Det er mye sosialisering i Paris akkurat nå og jeg må få med meg noe av det.

I morgen er det ny tur ut til flyplassen for å møte med UTC og deres Sikorsky Helicopters.

 

Airbus Helicopters H160 Enters Flight-Test Phase

The Airbus Helicopters H160 medium twin made its first flight on Saturday, June 13, at Marignane Airport, where the manufacturer has its headquarters. The helicopter took off at 9:30 a.m. and the flight, mostly hovering, lasted almost 20 minutes. Two flight-test engineers were on board, along with test pilot Olivier Gensse. “We felt virtually no vibration; this is very promising,” Gensse said. The first ground run took place on May 27. Pratt & Whitney Canada PW210 engines powered the first flight but they will be replaced, late this year or early next year, with Turbomeca Arranos. The latter will be the only production engine for the H160, since Pratt & Whitney Canada decided not to pursue a growth version of the 1,100-shp class PW210E, leaving the choice to the 1,100- to 1,300-shp Arrano. “This has not changed the schedule for us,” Philippe Couteaux, Turbomeca’s executive v-p of strategy and development, told AIN.