Eurocopter and Sikorsky

Here the news:
Forbes.com – AFX: Eurocopter mulling production of first heavy lift helicopter

Eurocopter and Sikorsky should not work on a totally new helicopter like CH-53X/ HLH, they should build the CH-53K together. Eurocopter could build the middle and back fuselage, and Sikorsky the cockpit section, gearbox, engines housings and rotor… . It would fly first around 2010-2011, in service by 2013-14.
The german CH-53G(S) was also built be VFW-Fokker, now part of EADS and Eurocopter.
This is the Sikorsky CH-53HLH/HLT (maybe CH-53X) Concept for the German Army a few years ago.

B787-10 vers A350-900 vers B777-200ER

This is the best quote, I found lately to the topic B787-10: 😉 😀 :diablo:

“The only thing worse than cannibalizing your own market is having your competitor do it,” said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Fairfax, VA-based Teal Group.

Source: ANN – Boeing Talks With Airlines About Bigger, Better 787

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/air_missiles/popeye_turbo/Popeye_Turbo.html

Goodbye present from Schroeder!

Israel to acquire two more German submarines ….

(2004-12-22 00:42:49.0)

http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=12098

Keeping this old thread up to date.

According to main german news sources (Focus, Spiegel, … ) the old german government,leaving office on Tuesday, will decide on Monday to sell two Dolphin class submarines to Israel. The submarines will be built in Kiel for a total of about one billion euros and the both german governments have agreeded to pick up one-third of the cost.
The subs will have an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system like in the U212 class.
Source in English from Israel: Haaretzdaily.com – Reports: Germany to sell Israel submarines at discount price

According to Airbus, the second A380 to fly, c/n 004, will take off tomorrow Tuesday 18th October.
Airbus indicates that the flight will take place weather permitting. Rainy weather is forecasted for tomorrow at Toulouse.

1st A380, F-WWSA s/n 003 for SIA rolls out….
006 has also rolled out, 009 looks pretty ready, too.
001 is already flying, 002 already has engines. Slowly, this is getting somewhere.
http://www.planepictures.net/netsearch4.cgi?stype=actype&srng=2&srch=Airbus%20A380-841

From the thread “Rutan at Edwards?”:

Scaled Composites Model 33 Advanced Technology Tactical Transport (ATTT) demonstrator, N133SC on the Edwards Air Force Base south base flightline on October 25, 2003. http://www.air-and-space.com/Rutan.htm

Superb Shots!
MSN 1004 really looks like the whale Moby Dick! 😉 😀

So much so far:

IRIS-T contract signed

On December 20, 2004, the contract covering series production of the air-to air guided missile IRIS-T was signed by the Federal Office for Military Technology and Procurement (BWB) and Diehl BGT Defence & Co. KG, a company of the Nuremberg-based Diehl Group. The BWB acted on behalf of all six European nations participating in the IRIS-T program. The series production contract is worth 1 billion Euro and makes an essential contribution to safeguarding core capabilities at Diehl. In the IRIS-T program, Germany acts as lead nation and Diehl BGT Defence as prime contractor.
The IRIS-T guided missile was developed in a multi-national European program under the lead of the industrial prime contractor Diehl BGT Defence. IRIS-T is a successor of the Sidewinder missile produced in US license. The dog fight-optimised IRIS-T will be operational on modern combat aircraft such as the Eurofighter, Tornado, F-16 and F-18 in the air forces of Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Deliveries of the more than 4.000 IRIS-T guided missiles will last until 2011. The air-to-air missile IRIS-T is also being considered for a surface-launched role and other forms of air defence.

Source: Flug-Revue -UPDATE – Week ending 9 January 2005