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| Civil AW139 helicopter assembly line |
| AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and Oboronprom Corporation are pleased to announce they have signed an agreement for the establishment of a 50-50 joint venture Company in Russia to set up and run a civil AW139 helicopter Final Assembly Line, for which the approval of the Russian Government is being sought, as required under the Strategic Enterprises Law.
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| SECOM Takes Delivery Of Its AW109 Power Helicopter |
| AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and Kaigai Aviotech Corporation are pleased to announce that SECOM, the largest security company in Japan, has taken delivery of its corporate-configured AW109 Power helicopter.
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| Sikorsky’s X2 TECHNOLOGY™ Demonstrator Achieves First Flight |
| Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation today successfully completed the first flight of its X2 TECHNOLOGY™ Demonstrator, maneuvering the prototype aircraft through hover, forward flight, and a hover turn, in a test flight that lasted approximately 30 minutes. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.
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| Loud noise heard before crash |
| Seconds before an Aero Med helicopter crashed on the roof of Spectrum Health's Butterworth Hospital on Thursday, the pilot and his passenger, a Federal Aviation Administration official, heard a loud noise, possibly indicating a mechanical failure.
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| Chopper Crash in Ukraine Kills 20 |
| A helicopter belonging to Ukraine's state gas company crashed yesterday as it tried to land on a Black Sea drilling platform, killing 20 people, officials said.
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| X2 Chopper Could Reach 250 Knots |
| Sikorsky aircraft is revving up for the first test flight of what could become the fastest helicopter ever fielded in battle: The recently unveiled 5,300-pound X2 demonstrator attack chopper, built to reach sustained speeds of 250 knots.
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| HeliPilot skill avoids disaster |
| Topeka Police Chief Ron Miller on Saturday praised the actions of 2 pilots who crash-landed a police department helicopter without injuring anyone late Friday on the Washburn University campus.
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| MH-53 copters more likely to crash |
| The type of Navy helicopter that crashed near Corpus Christi, killing 3 crew members and injuring one, is the Navy's most accident-prone helicopter.
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| Chopper in emergency sea landing |
| A surf rescue helicopter went into the sea just offshore of the Groot Brakrivier near Mossel Bay in South Africa around 13:00 on Tuesday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.
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| Helicopter narrowly avoids disaster |
| Federal investigators were to conduct an investigation Monday after a Lifesaver helicopter taking an accident victim to a hospital hit a power line near Ironaton Baptist Church and was forced to land in a field.
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