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March 19, 2004

Designing For The White House

Team US101 Selects Kaman Aerospace For Presidential Helo

The US101 team led by Lockheed Martin and AgustaWestlandBell announced during the HAI EXpo 2004 that Kaman Aerospace Corp. has been selected to supply structures and engineering work for the US101 medium-lift executive aircraft being offered in a competition for the next presidential Marine One helicopter. Kaman is a contractor on major civil and military aviation programs, including the C-17 military transport and the SH-2G Super Seasprite naval helicopter. The agreement provides for Kaman to contribute engineering resources to the US101 program from its Connecticut facilities.

Officials at Altus Air Force Base, OK, performed a load validation on a C-17 Globemaster III for the MH-60S Knight Hawk helicopter recently with the help of Navy specialists. This is the seventh helicopter model validated on a C-17. Airmen from Altus' 58th Airlift Squadron along with 21 people from the Navy loaded the Navy helicopter onto a C-17 for the first time. The Knight Hawk is a cousin of the Air Force's HH-60G Pave Hawk.

It's All About Saving Trees

Take heart, environmentalists. U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. sees your point of view when it comes to saving trees and saving money, too. The maker of fighter planes and communication networks for the military is about to replace its paper instruction manuals for all its F-16 fighter plane with a computer-based system. Some 1.4 million pages of data will eventually appear online. When the system launches later this year, Lockheed's military plane unit will join defense contractor Boeing Co., as well as leading-edge technology companies in the Internet age.