Archival news of 2004

January 2004 FLIR Systems Distributes Helicopter Vision Systems Contract Mates Fire Scout with Future Combat System Coast Guard Dolphin Deploys Boat Trap Lockheed Martin Proposes JCM Factory FlightSafety Black Hawk Simulator Level D Certified Navy Orders Helicopter Guns H-60 Joint Venture Wins Logistics Support Contract Bell Gets H-1 LRIP Contract Polar First Bell 407 Crashes in the Antarctic Sikorsky Builds All-American Team for VXX Presidential Helicopter Ninth Apache Longbow Battalion Combat-Ready Lockheed Martin Gets MH-60 Common Cockpit Multi-Year Contract

February 2004 Helicopter UAV To Demonstrate Electric Gun Navy Orders Energy-Attenuating Seat Cushions for AH-1/UH-1 LHTEC Earns FAA Certification For CTS800-4N Comanche Killed To Strengthen Army Aviation Honeywell Advances Chinook Engine MD Explorer Accepted by Drug Enforcement Agency Presidential Helicopter Evaluation Underway Laser Head Tracker Flies On Canadian Helicopter Honeywell Tests FADEC On Dolphin Engine US Army Orders Special Operations Flight Simulators Honeywell Refining Shrouded Rotor Micro UAV Hellenic Navy SEAHAWK Flies

March 2004 BAE To Fuse Radar and FLIR on Army Chinook BAE Begins S-92 Fly By Wire Testing VXX Presidential Helicopter Selection Delayed V-22 Resumes Air-to-Air Refueling Tests Infrared Suppressor Will Protect H-1 Tail Boom Boeing Tests Piezoelectric Flaps on Helicopter Rotor Comanche MEP Work Goes On Lockheed Martin Interfaces Hellfire and Australian Tigre OSD Explains Joint MultiRole Helicopter VTDP Goes Army Coast Guard UAV Passes Preliminary Design Review Coast Guard Views HH-60J CAAS Modernization

April 2004 AHS Announces 2004 Award Recipients Sikorsky To Convert Four More Medevac Black Hawks MH-60S Validated On Air Force C-17 EC225 "Iron Bird" Finishes Endurance Testing Reconfigurable Coast Guard Trainer Ready Rockwell Collins To Upgrade Presidential Cockpit Lockheed Martin Develops Survivability Software Air Methods to Convert Third FIREHAWK Kollsman Upgrades SuperCobra Night Targeting System S-92 Completes Artificial Icing Tests

May 2004 Boeing Acquires UAV Developer Frontier Systems Inc. UH-1Y Fires Weapons First Production NH90 flies at Berlin Air Show Boeing Rolls Out First MH-47G Army Plans All-New CH-47F Airframes Piasecki Gets Army VTDP Contract BAE Systems Receives Army Contract for Black Hawk Fuel Managers Lockheed To Develop Joint Missile AHS Announces 2004 Award Recipients MH-60S Flies With Laser Mine Detector

June 2004 Bell Agusta Plans BA609 Test Program Lockheed Martin Avionics Integration Pioneer Receives Helicopter Industry's Highest Honorary Award TEAM EAGLE EYE To Promote Tiltrotor UAV Navy Plans Armed MH-60S New-Build CH-53X Performance No Comanche Lite Army Plans Common Fly-By-Wire in UH-60M, AH-64D Army to Fly Adaptive Infrared Exhaust Suppressor Agusta Westland Gets VXX Engines Boeing Plans To Fly Optionally-Manned Little Bird

July 2004 Cobra Suppressors On Order Eagle Eye Team Signs Pact Army Prepares Brownout Kit Canada Picks H-92 to Replace Sea Kings First Production CH-47F Delivered Metal Storm Plans To Fly Electronic Gun On UAV Vigilante UAV Prepares for Airborne Control Sikorsky Prepares S-92 For Commercial Service Bell Developing 427i with KAI

August 2004 Winners of the 2004 21st Annual Ahs/Industry/NASA Student Design Competition Vigilante Flies Under Airborne Control Sikorsky To Acquire Schweizer Aircraft New Black Hawk/Chinook Gun In Production Goodrich HUMS for UH-60M BAE Systems Prepares For CONDOR II Trials Chinook Simulator Gets CAAS Cockpit Honeywell Finishes Ducted Fan UAV Demonstration

September 2004 Boeing Refines Composite Blades For AH-64D Re-engined HH-65 ready for Coast GuardTraining HMH-465 Receives Award Marine CH-53Es Get Armor UH-1Y Test Aircraft Completes Modifications A160 Hummingbird Resumes Flight Testing RESET Apache Returns Northrop Grumman Demonstrates UCAR Technology

October 2004 Boeing Clears Unmanned Little Bird Flight Envelope US Army Looks To Counter Low-Tech Threats Infrared Jammer Gets Dust Filter Marine Corps Outlines CH-53 Heavy Lift Replacement More Hummingbirds Join Program

November 2004 Laser Tracker For Tiger Simulator New T700 In Production Fort Rucker CO Outlines Combat Lessons Learned Sikorsky Signs Canadian Maritime Helicopter Contracts UCAR Continues Competitive Development Lockheed Martin Bids On Merlin Upgrade New Testbed Exploits Comanche Technology Boeing Beats Reset Goals

December 2004 Army participation in UCAR Industry Briefings Bell Relocates V-22 Program Office to Amarillo Development Contracts Launch Tiger HAD Irish Air Corps Selects AB139 S-92 Simulator Gets Level D Certification Sikorsky Dedicates Earned Value Program Control Center US Coast Guard Proceeds with Jayhawk Improvements Agusta Bell Delivers AB139 to Aga Kan Development Network Thai Army Black Hawks Delivered V-22 Completes Shipboard Testing