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Kamov Company's Kamov Ka-32A-11BC heavy-lift helicopter has finally received Canadian Type Approval from Transport Canada. The Russian company, which started its campaign in 1993 in a joint effort with Sidney, British Columbia-based VIH Logging Ltd., hopes to translate the certification into additional sales for its helicopter in Canada and other western nations. The twin-engine, co-axial rotor helicopter is the first modern helicopter from Russia to receive the distinction in the western world.
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Petroleum Helicopters is facing strike action after negotiations with its pilots union were broken off in Feb 2001. The prospect of strike action, along with other dificulties beign faced by PHI management, is leading the speculation of a hostile takeover bid by one of the other offshore helicopter support players, notably CHC Helicopter which does not have a share of the Gulf market but competes with PHI in other areas of the world.
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EH Industries is using two EH101 prototypes to accelerate the icing and cold certification of the helicopter. One prototype, PP7, has started instrumentation test flights in Nova Scotia and has so far logged 13 flights in moderate to heavy snow conditions to minus 6 degrees centigrade. Previously, prototype PP3 was flown in Nova Scotia and Denmark at temperatures as low as minus 22 degrees centigrade.
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