Thursday, October 11, 2012

The first thing that meets you when you visit the Sikorsky factory in Stratford, Connecticut, USA,

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The first thing that meets you when you visit the Sikorsky factory in Stratford, Connecticut, USA, is a bust of the founder Igor Sikorsky and a sign that says Sikorsky helicopters in 2012 to date has saved 775 lives. ifi Further into the factory halls, the military helicopters, which dominates the assembly lines. Blackhawk helicopters to the U.S. Army and Seahawk helicopters for the U.S. Navy rolls in four rows down through the large bright hall where a huge American flag hanging from the ceiling. If Denmark choose to buy MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to replace our aging Lynx helicopters will be here in the hall, the helicopters will come alive. At each assembly line is seven helicopters that about every third day, advancing down the band before they towed into a secluded hangar, where U.S. Navy verifies that the job is done well enough. When the helicopter has been approved, get it installed a primitive cockpit and being flown around. one hour west of the Lockheed Martin plant in the idyllic town, Owego, far away in a wooded corner of New York State. On a hillside along a river with eagles hovering above the landscape is Lockheed Martin's huge plant in 2700 employees totaling 140,000 square meters working ifi to develop advanced mission systems, sensors and navigation equipment for military aircraft, helicopters and missiles.
Hawks Nest helicopter lands in Owego and will be rolled ifi into a small Assembly Building called "Hawk nest" (hawks ifi nest) for up to eight helicopters. During the 64 days installed and tested cockpit and all the electronic giblets. The U.S. Navy uses the helicopter to hunt submarines, and therefore they also installed the so-called ASW equipment (anti-submarine warfare). It's a big box that takes up about a quarter of the cabin. Inside the box is a sonar buoy which via a hole in the floor can be lowered into the water. In front of the box is a desk where an operator can operate the equipment and listen for submarines. If Denmark decides to buy Seahawk helicopter will be without equipment for submarine hunting installed, but the helicopter is prepared for that it can be installed in a very short time. U.S. Navy has deliberately chosen not the so-called flotation gear, which makes the helicopter able to flow in a forced landing on water. Statistics and operational data shows that it is not necessary. At an emergency ifi landing at sea delays

flotation gear only time at which the helicopter sank. Personal survival equipment, inflatable rubber rafts, training to get out of a helicopter underwater and reliable engines makes much more useful ifi is the assessment from the U.S. Navy. Australia has just bought 24 Seahawk helicopters and has no flotation ifi gear on their helicopters when flying all over the shark infested Australian waters.
Flight Ready factory in Owego has its own small helicopter ifi airport complete with fire trucks, windsock and control tower. From the tower features a complete helicopter getting ready to be delivered to the U.S. Navy. After a thorough check lift helicopter up from the ground. To applause from a group assembled staff the helicopter up against the surrounding mountains and disappear behind the factory building. A few minutes later the helicopter comes up again and pass at high speed and low altitude over the airport. The employees cheering and watching ifi the helicopter disappear into the horizon. Ahead lies a four-day long flight to San Diego in California on the U.S. west coast. Here ends the helicopter to the U.S. Navy's ifi Pacific Fleet. The helicopter is number 123 out of a total of 300 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters, the U.S. Navy has ordered from Sikorsky and Lockheed ifi Martin. The updates U.S. Navy in the future will be made, will be forwarded to other users. It is also possible to work around the support, maintenance ifi and training with countries such as Sweden and Austria, which both use Seahawk'ens brother Blackhawk. Denmark has already ifi had the first talk with the Swedes on joint procurement of components. When a helicopter to land on the deck of a ship on the high seas, it is important that it can immediately hook onto the ship. U.S. Navy uses a so-called RAST system which is mounted on the deck of the ship. Denmark ifi and several other countries, ifi meanwhile, use a system where a harpoon

mounted under the helicopter shot down in a grill on the deck. The engineers at Sikorsky therefore look at whether you can make some kind of adapter that will make Denmark in a position to be able to land and secure the helicopters on both American and Danish ships.
Needs: The defense has not settled on how many new helicopters you have to buy. It has however established a number of needs. It is up to the manufacturers to come up with an idea of how many copies of their helicopter, which needed to meet the Danish needs. The needs are: - Continuous deployment of helicopters on patrol vessels near Greenland and the Faroe

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