• JUNE 18, 2012 P. 36 AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE DEPARTMENTIn 2008, an Australian navy Seasprite was wrapped and ready to be shipped back to Kaman in the U.S.
• December 20, 1965 P. 60 (3 Pages) KAMAN'S PROPOSAL is a modified SeaSprite with a more powerful engine and wide variety of armament.
• April 8, 1963 P. 80 (6 Pages) KAMAN UH-2A SEASPRITE rescue and liaison helicopter banks steeply during simulated rescue mission.
• JUNE 19, 1989 P. 147, 143 SH-2G will incorporate modular equipment (colored in orange) that can be added or removed, depending upon the mission flown. In the antisurface warfare role (top), the aircraft will be fitted with a Flir, chaff/flare dispensers and two 100-gal. auxiliary fuel tanks.
• April 10, 1972 P. 62 Kaman Aerospace Corp. SH-2D SeaSprite, operational with the U. S. Pacific Fleet (AW&ST May 24, 1971, p. 21) as an interim Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (Lamps), is shown on the flight deck
• August 5, 1968 P. 85 Controllable-twist rotor design developed by Kaman Aircraft Corp. would use pitch link to control inboard rotor blade angle, servo-flap system to control twist of outboard section to increase rotor blade efficiency.
• JUNE 19, 1989 P. 147, 143 This SH-2F is configured as the YSH-2G—the proof-of-concept vehicle used to test the GE T700 engines that will become standard equipment in the SH-2G. This aircraft also will be the first SH2F remanufactured to the SH-2G standards.
• JUNE 19, 1989 P. 147, 143 The SH-2G could, in the future, be fitted with a dipping sonar for active ASW activities (bottom).
• JUNE 19, 1989 P. 147, 143 For passive antisubmarine warfare missions (middle), the SH-2G will be equipped with a sonobuoy launcher housing 15 sonobuoys and two Mk. 50 torpedos and an ASQ-188 presetter.
• MARCH 10, 2008 P. 32 AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE DEPT.Australia contracted with Kaman to develop the SH-2G(A) to an advanced standard even though only 11 aircraft were to be bought. The gold-plating didn't pay off.
• JANUARY 9, 2012 P. 24, 25 AUSTRALIAN AEROSPACEAustralia has agreed to take delivery of three more MRH9Os, including this one, but Eurocopter would like to hand over more.
• October 31, 1960 P. 89 PITCH feedback control linkage resists blade gust load forces on Kaman HU2K-1.
• FEBRUARY 5, 1996 P. 77 Westland’s Lynx is already in service with the Korean navy (below) and is a finalist for the New Zealand competition against the Kaman SH-2G Seasprite.
• April 12, 1971 P. 24 Kaman SeaSprite, modified to fill Navy’s interim Light Airborne houses search radar antenna, and pylon on right side of fuseMulti-Purpose System (Lamps) requirement, recently made its lage contains winch for magnetic anomaly detector. Auxiliary first flight at the company’s Bloomfield, Conn., facility. Tests fuel tank mounts can be used as Mk. 46 homing torpedo will continue through the summer, with operational deployment launchers. Ten of the aircraft, powered by General Electric scheduled for about November. Radome under nose of the T58-GE-8B turbines, will be modified as interim Lamps with modified twin-turbine H-2D SeaSprite—redesignated SH-2D— 10 more expected to be modified in Fiscal 1972.
• October 16, 1961 P. 115 White tank on fourth Navy Seasprite from right, above, is an auxiliary fuel tank. Kaman has produced 28 of the helicopters to date. Next steps in the HU2K program are structural demonstrations and Board of Inspection survey at NAS Patuxent River, Md. Although the HU2K-1 was designed as a utility-rescue aircraft, it is being adapted for anti-submarine warfare tests. Kaman recently received a contract from the Navy to install ASW gear in the helicopter. Rotor system consists of four-blade main rotor and three-blade anti-torque rotor.

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