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Subject: Army awaits helicopter delivery
TheArmchairCmd    12/29/2005 7:00:45 AM
Seems the refusal not to accept any imperfections on a delivered product did pay somewhat off. But we had to get them now as there is abselutely no life left in the Sea King airframes. Army awaits helicopter delivery 23.12.2005 The first shipment of the army's new helicopter is expected in January after several years of delays The first of the Royal Danish Army's 14 new helicopters are expected to be delivered in January. The delivery follows nearly two years of delays caused by technical problems that manufacturer Augusta Westland was forced to remedy. The EH-101 will phase out the army's* 40-year-old Sikorsky S-61 helicopters, which have been used for rescue missions. The EH-101 is also expected to assist transporting troops. Army officials identified mistakes in EH-101's software and found cracks in its tail rotor. Augusta Westland agreed to replace the rotors after every 100 hours of flying time. In addition, Augusta Westland committed itself to installing a newly developed rotor system free of charge in the helicopters if the problem is not remedied. ------------------------------- * That would be the Air Forces' 40 year old Sea Kings. 8 for AF SAR, 6 for Army and possible choice of 4 Merlins for Navy.
 
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TheArmchairCmd    RE:Army awaits helicopter delivery - link   12/29/2005 7:01:31 AM
 
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Thomas3    RE:Army awaits helicopter delivery - link   1/1/2006 3:47:06 PM
If all extra maintainence could be charged to the supplier, then the faults would be rectified, as they'll get tired of paying; but it should be considered, that there is some problems of building the new base at Karup - and especially staffing it, as few SeaKing technicians want to move into the nearest thing in Denmark to the middle of Nowhere. They had excatly the same problem when they closed Holmen naval station - the staff is furthermore organised in the same union. And the move from Holmen cost a lot more than budgetted due to incentives to the staff to remain untill the new staffing was build up. That is another reason behind the StandardFlex concept, as these ships are not so dependent on the knowledge of the the shipwrights.
 
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TheArmchairCmd    RE:Army awaits helicopter delivery - not anymore   1/11/2006 5:43:18 PM
This baby arrived yesterday. The first to be delivered. :) http://forsvaret.dk/NR/rdonlyres/4200508B-4270-4F00-A7AC-410A76C51191/23928/EH101nyforside.jpg> Thank you very much AugustaWestland.
 
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TheArmchairCmd    RE:Army awaits helicopter delivery - not anymore   1/11/2006 5:45:33 PM
This baby arrived yesterday. The first to be delivered. :) http://forsvaret.dk/NR/rdonlyres/4200508B-4270-4F00-A7AC-410A76C51191/23928/EH101nyforside.jpg ALT=EH101SAR> Thank you very much AugustaWestland.
 
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Thomas3    RE:Army awaits helicopter delivery - not anymore   1/13/2006 7:41:18 AM
Those paddle blades at the rotor tip indicate a good speed - that will be helpfull in many ways.
 
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