Agusta Westland says it successfully completed the maiden flight
of the Japanese EH101, the first of four aircraft ordered by Tokyo,
after just 44-weeks of was successfully completed at Agusta
Westland's Yeovil facility in the UK. The helicopter, designated
KHI-01, is the first of 14 aircraft ordered by the Japanese Defense
Agency to meet its Transportation, Airborne Anti Mine Counter
Measures (AMCM) and Antarctic survey requirements.
The future is sitting in Hanger 129 at Vance AFB in Enid,
OK.
In this case, the future comes in the form of two Raytheon T-6A
Texan II aircraft. They're not being flown by the USAF student
pilots at Vance -- yet. Instead, they've been sent over by Moody
AFB in Georgia as training beds for the DynCorp Technical Services
contractors who will maintain them.
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