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Spanish Students win Eurofighter Typhoon Trophy
11 August 2008
Hallbergmoos - Three students of the Leonardo Da Vinci High School in Madrid, Spain, won the Eurofighter Typhoon Trophy at the third International Aerospace Summer School competition. Eleven Teams from 10 nations competed in this unique event supported, for the third year running, by the four Nation Eurofighter consortium.
After submission of a presentation to define an “Unmanned Platforms for Military Reconnaissance & Civil Surveillance - Benefits & Limits", the teams had to prove who is best during one week full of aerospace activities at Cranfield University, England. They flew small aircraft and helicopters, took a first hand glance at wind tunnel testing, flew in a test bed and were briefed in many areas of aerospace. The highlight of the week was the visit to the Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon base at RAF Coningsby, where they received first hand information from the pilots.
Each team consisted of three students aged 16 to 18 advised by a teacher. They came from the four Eurofighter Nations Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, plus representation from Austria, Greece, India, South Africa, Switzerland, and Turkey.
The Eurofighter consortium along with Alenia Aeronautica, BAE Systems, EADS Germany and EADS CASA had announced in November 2005 that it will support this new initiative to involve and attract the engineers of the future into the aerospace industry through a new international aerospace competition. It will continue this effort in 2008 and the years to follow.
More than 400 companies and suppliers throughout Europe are involved in the Eurofighter programme securing a vital technology base for the Nations participating in the project. They all are in the need for young engineers to manage the challenging tasks that lie ahead of them.
High Resolution images of the Eurofighter Typhoon can be downloaded from our web site. Hard Copy images are available on request.
The U.S. Marine Corps' UH-1Y utility helicopter achieved initial operating capability (IOC) Aug. 8, the service announced, in preparation for its first deployment early next year.
After more than a year of training, three UH-1Y helicopters with six pilots and six crew chiefs have reported to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in preparation for deployment aboard the USS Boxer in January 2009. It will be the first MEU deployment with a new type/model/series UH-1 since 1972, according to the Marines.
Lt. Gen. George Trautman declared IOC for the UH-1Y at Marine Corps Headquarters in Quantico, Va. All three aircraft have demonstrated flight requirements, according to the service.
The UH-1Y is part of the H-1 upgrade program, which is replacing the current fleet of AH-1W and UH-1N helos with AH-1Zs and UH-1Ys.Bell Helicopter is leading the industry team on the turbulent effort, which ran into cost and schedule problems and breached Nunn-McCurdy cost growth caps.
“It's been a long, intense effort to achieve IOC and it has been rewarding for the fleet to reach this milestone,”said John Baronowski, H-1 director of logistics.The upgraded Huey provides significant increases in range, payload, speed, survivability, maintainability and deployability. It also features reductions in life-cycle costs and logistics footprint, according to the program officials.
The total program requirement for the UH-1Y is 123 helicopters. Delivery is expected to be complete by the end of fiscal 2016.
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