Health And Usage Monitoring System Installed On MH-47G
Chinook
Intelligent Automation Corporation (IAC), developers of Health
and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) for aircraft, tells ANN the
company successfully completed its first installation and test
flight on the US Army 160th Special Operations Aviation
Regiment’s (160th SOAR) MH-47G Chinook helicopter.
Sources with Bell Helicopter and Boeing tell ANN the Bell Boeing
V-22 Osprey program's Airframe Fatigue Test Program surpassed the
20,000 Effective Flight Hour (EFH) milestone on February 22, 2007.
The Fatigue Test Program, involving a full-size V-22 aircraft,
began in June 1998, and is the first ever conducted for a
tiltrotor-type aircraft.
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