Aero India - 2011

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Air warrior
US Air Force F-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft takes off at the opening ceremony of Aero India 2011 in Yelahanka air base on the outskirts of Bangalore on February 9, 2011. More than 300 weapon makers are participating in in the five-day event in hopes of capturing a share of $10 billion worth of fighter jets and other arms India is planning to buy from overseas.

 

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Indian air force Jaguar fighter aircraft fly in formation as they perform at the opening ceremony of Aero India 2011.

 

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India's light combat aircraft Tejas performs at the opening ceremony of Aero India 2011.

 

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High flyer
Tata Group chairperson Ratan Tata waves before boarding a Boeing fighter F/A-18 Super Hornet that he sits on back seat at the Aero India 2011 at the Yelahanka air base on the outskirts of Bangalore on February 10, 2011. The Tata Group chairperson had earlier flown in an F-16 during the 2007 Aero India. Aviation companies from around the world are participating in the five-day event that started February 9.

 

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Aero India: Bell pushes 429 in India

February 18, 2011

Bell Helicopters is aggressively targeting India's burgeoning civil helicopter market that is expected to double to around 530 rotary platforms over the next five years.

The company is actively promoting its latest multi-mission Bell 429 helicopter, of which it has delivered one to Span Air, a privately owned charter company based in New Delhi, earlier this year and plans on customising this platform for potential local clients.

'The Bell 429 is ideally suited to India's climatic conditions and multiple requirements,' Bell's director of Asia-Pacific sales, Sameer A Rehman, told Rotorhub.com at the recently concluded Aero India 2011 in Bangalore.

He said the twin-engine platform was a 'hardy and adaptable' helicopter capable of being employed for tourism in India's desert, mountainous and forested regions, political campaigning in remote areas with minimal infrastructural support and for law enforcement duties.

The Bell 429 can also function as both air ambulances and to provide emergency medical services in addition to being deployed during frequent natural disasters that strike India like floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and cyclones in support of relief and rescue operations.

In addition, its operational ceiling of 18,000-20,000 feet considerably expands the aircraft's employability in northern and eastern India's vast Himalayan expanse.

Company officials believe the Bell 429, which was designed by utilising the Maintenance Steering Group-3 (MSG-3) process to ensure a greater degree of safety and low operational and upkeep costs, could also serve as a possible replacement for the obsolete fleet of Chetak's (Aerospatiale SA 316 Alouette III's) and Cheetah's (Aerospatiale SA-315B Lama's) still in service with India's military in large numbers.

Under the MSG-3 programme the Bell 429 requires 35% less maintenance man hours compared to a similar rotor platform rendering it highly competitive for a country such as India, Rehman said.

Consequently, the Textron-owned company believes the Bell 429 – priced between USD 6-7 million each – had a 'positive' future in India that for decades has operated Bell platforms.

Bell's key segment specialist Carl H Crenshaw III said the Bell 429 was best suited for law enforcement and surveillance missions in addition to doubling as a command and control post for the security forces.

The former head of Baltimore's Police Aviation Unit in the US said the Bell 429 had the potential to be armed depending on the client's mission requirement, but declined to elaborate further.

He cited the fight against Maoist guerrillas, who were increasingly expanding their presence across central and eastern parts of the country, as a situation where helicopters such as the Bell 429 would be effective force multipliers.

http://www.shephard.co.uk/news/rotorhub/aero-india-bell-pushes-429-in-india/8355/

 

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What happened to raptor ?
Did it even came to the air show ?

 

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What happened to raptor ?
Did it even came to the air show ?

It did.. but it was so stealthy that hardly anyone was able to spot it... Well jokes apart.. no it didn't..

 

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