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Don’t Worry, They Always Pack Extra Screws

Threading a needle wearing boxing gloves. This amazing series of photographs shows the loading of a C17 at RAF brize Norton with the first of a batch of Merlin helicopters bound for Afghanistan. Not much to say except, brilliant… AKPC_IDS += "1337,";SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Don’t ...
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A Case for Coherence

The recent announcements of helicopter upgrades that we have blogged here and here, especially the Puma and Lynx upgrade, are to be welcomed, despite their apparent poor value for money, they will return airframes to operations and that can only be a good thing. The Chinook upgrade especially will result ...
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A Tale of Three Upgrades – Puma and Lynx

Returning to the familiar subject of helicopters; the MoD has announced a number of upgrades to the UK rotary fleet.   Puma and Lynx We covered the Lynx upgrade in a previous post and observed that at a cost of approximately £6.5million each the Army Air Corps would be getting 20 upgraded AH Mk.9A ...
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A Tale of Three Upgrades – Chinook

Returning to the familiar subject of helicopters; the MoD has announced a number of upgrades to the UK rotary fleet.   Chinook A £408 million upgrade project has been awarded to Vector Aerospace in Gosport to bring the entire fleet of airframes up to a common standard. The upgrade is split into ...
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The Advent of Future Lynx: Taking a Backwards Step into the Future

Future Lynx Army Version It wasn’t that long ago when the name ‘Westland Helicopters’ used to be associated with ministerial resignations, especially for those in defence. Things have been pretty quiet in Yeovil since then, but it appears that this once cold potato has been put back into the oven ...
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