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Bell Helicopter Announces the Delivery of Seven Bell 429s to the Swedish National Police
Bell Helicopter recently announced the delivery and entry into service of the Swedish National Police’s seven Bell 429 helicopters. The fleet is being used for law enforcement and search and rescue, including mountain rescue, across Sweden.
Swedish National Police fleet video:
“This is now the largest Bell 429 fleet in operation in the European Union,” said Jakub Hoda, Bell Helicopter managing director for Europe and Russia. “Customers in Europe have shown great interest in the Bell 429 for law enforcement and search and rescue operations. Over a quarter of the Bell 429s in service across Europe today are flying parapublic missions, demonstrating the superior performance of the Bell 429.”
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Elbit Systems’ BrightNite™ Performs Successful Demonstration Flights
Elbit Systems performed a series of successful demonstration flights using the BrightNite™ system, a solution that enables utility helicopters to successfully perform degraded visual environment (DVE) missions in more than 90 percent of the nights. The goal of the flights was to demonstrate the systems’ performance in DVE conditions, moonless, pitch dark nights in which flights are rarely executed. Dozens of pilots from a variety of air forces around the globe participated in the demo flights, which took place in Israel. Installed onboard an Airbus Twin-Star helicopter for the demo, the BrightNite system provided the pilots with night-piloting capabilities similar to and even exceeding those of attack helicopters.
In the sorties that took place during
the demonstration flights, the feedback was extremely positive and the pilots emphasized the contribution of the system to flight. Here are some pilot quotes: “A
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The Bell 429 continues to gain customers in police forces around the world. Bell Helicopter has recently delivered 15 Bell 429s to the Turkish National Police, four Bell 429s to the New York Police Department, and the first of two Bell 429s to the Slovakian Police.
breakthrough system that changes flight philosophy…. It opens a whole new flight arena…. Flying with the system was amazing, it was an expierance far above my expectations…. The system literally opens any night to flight.... It’s a crucial system for helicopters in night operations…. The system is like magic.”
Lightweight, compact, and cost-effective, BrightNite is a multi-spectral end-to-end panoramic piloting solution that delivers the essential data directly to both eyes of the pilot, enabling intuitive flight in a head- up, eyes-out orientation in pitch dark and other DVE conditions.
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