September 29, 1975

September 29, 1975

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Special Report: Helicopters Meet New Challenges

Funding Squeeze Slows R&d Efforts

Special Report: Helicopters Meet New Challenges

Industry Future Keyed to Civil Market

Special Report: Helicopters Meet New Challenges

New Helicopter Combat Roles Planned

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Funding Squeeze Slows R&d Efforts

Ft. Eustis, Va.—New analytical study methods for rotors and control systems and substantial progress with composite materials are key elements of helicopter research that promise to provide simpler, lighter and easier to maintain helicopters beyond 1985.
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Industry Future Keyed to Civil Market

Worldwide civil helicopter boom, spurred by a high-paced natural resources development effort, and with significant ripples representing other growing utilizations, is expected to dictate the future of the industry and its products for at least the next decade.
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New Helicopter Combat Roles Planned

Ft. Rucker, Ala.—Role of the helicopter on the battlefield and its ability to survive in combat is being argued by U. S. military planners with opposing points of view. The Army is convinced that the rotary-wing aircraft can play a key offensive role by seeking out and destroying enemy armor and armored infantry units by massing helicopter firepower.
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Helicopter Logging Eases Ecology Loss

San Francisco—Ability of heavy-lift helicopters to tame the rugged wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest without destroying them has earned these machines an important role in the nation’s timber and energy industries. From California to Alaska, helicopters are helping to increase the nation’s timber supply and facilitating the construction of power transmission lines.
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Aging Helicopters Facing Soviet Threat

Jacksonville NAS, Fla.—Navy’s close-in ship defense against a growing Soviet submarine and cruise missile menace is a 15-year-old helicopter airframe equipped with 20-year-old avionics and sensor technology. Five squadrons of SH-3 Sikorsky Sea Kings make up Navy’s Helicopter Anti-Submarine Warfare Wing-1 here and are used for deployment on board carriers in the Atlantic fleet.
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Combat Survivability Rated Above Speed

Philadelphia—State-of-the-art rotary wing technology finding application in the newer helicopter projects is aimed more at improving survivability and maintainability than at increasing performance, especially performance in terms of markedly higher speeds.
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Rotor Research Receiving New Impetus

Hampton, Va.—U. S. government interest in helicopter rotor research—increasing over the past several years after a long period of virtual neglect—reflects the dollars once absorbed by Project Apollo and by the huge rotary-wing materiel requirements of the war in Southeast Asia becoming available—usually in modest quantities—to research.
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Helicopter Lift May Break Port Jams

Amsterdam—Cargo delays due to increasing congestion in world ports are opening up a new area of business for heavy lift helicopters that may be forfeited, however, through high costs of providing the service and lack of helicopters to do the job on a long-term basis.
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Marines Seek Increased Speed, Range

New River, N. C.—Marine Corps is studying methods of obtaining additional speed and range from its helicopter fleet with a long-range goal of procuring an aircraft with speed approaching 300 kt. and a radius of operations of 500 naut. mi. The Marines believe the extended range and higher speed are necessary in a helicopter that can carry 25 combat-equipped troops for amphibious assault operations.
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Civil, Military Demands Spur Helicopter Growth Surge

Worldwide demand for helicopters, which has increased sharply in the past two years, is expected to continue strong for at least a decade, with 15,000-20,000 new units to be sold in the non-Communist world in that period. U. S. helicopter sales—civil and military—could approach $1.5 billion in 1975.
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