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A prototype of the upgraded Sikorsky SH-60R Seahawk has been delivered to the Naval Air Systems Command Center for a two-year evaluation of its new glass cockpit avionics and mission systems. Other features of the prototype aside from the Litton-designed glass cockpit inlcudes the APS- 147 radar and sonobuoy system from Telephonics and AQS-22 dipping sonar from the Raytheon/Thomson-CSF team. The US Navy plans to reconfigure a total of 243 SH-60 and HH-60H variants to the SH-60R configuration.
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The Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey accident in Apr 2000 has been attributed by the US Marine Corps to human factors. The crew of the accompanying Osprey, which was the lead aircraft in the exercise, has been subjected to 'administrative action' by the Marine Corps. After analyzing the combination of events, the investigators concluded that the crew may have been unaware of the vortex ring state. Had they known, it might have been possible to partially recover and undertake a heavy landing.
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GKN Westland handed over on Nov 1, 2000 the first of the Royal Danish Navy's newly upgraded Super Lynx helicopters in a ceremony at Vaerlose Air Base, Headquarters of Denmark's Air Material Command. The aircraft is the first of eight in fleet to receive an upgrade and life extension contract to Super Lynx standard that was awarded in 1997. Valued at about 17 million pounds sterling, the contract is the first to include the manufacture by GKN of replacement airframe structures.
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