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The Bell 430 is an American/Canadian twin-engine light-medium helicopter built by Bell Helicopter. It is a stretched and more powerful development of the Bell 230 , which, in turn, was based on the earlier Bell 222 .
The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter. It is the first member of the prolific Huey family , as well as the first turbine-powered helicopter in service with the United States military .
Bell Helicopters was the winner of a 1963 United States Air Force competition for a support helicopter for use on its missile bases. [3] Bell had proposed the UH-1B for the competition but the USAF asked Bell to develop a special version of the "Bravo" in using the General Electric T58 turboshaft as a powerplant.
The upgraded M113A4 includes the RISE (Reliability Improvements for Selected Equipment) power package consisting of the turbocharged Detroit Diesel 400 hp 6V53TA engine and Allison X200-4A automatic transmission with integrated hydrostatic steering and braking in a compact and rugged unit providing four forward and two reverse gears.
The Bell 429 GlobalRanger is a light, twin-engine helicopter developed by Bell Helicopter and Korea Aerospace Industries. The first flight of the prototype took place on February 27, 2007, [4] and the aircraft received type certification on July 1, 2009. [5] The Bell 429 is capable of single-pilot IFR and Runway Category A operations. [6]
During World War I, air transport was used to provide medical evacuation – either from frontline areas or the battlefield itself.. In 1928, in Australia, John Flynn founded the Flying Doctor Service (later the Royal Flying Doctor Service), to provide a wide range of medical services to civilians in remote areas; these included from routine consultations with travelling general practitioners ...
STAT MedEvac uses two types of helicopters for patient transport, the Eurocopter EC 135, and the EC-145. Their fleet has included the MBB Bo 105 , Eurocopter AS-355 F2 Twinstar and AS-365 N3 Dauphin , the MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 and the Bell 430 (N430Q, which set an around-the-world speed record in 1996).
An AW109 helicopter evacuates a patient from the Tatra mountains in Slovakia. Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac [1] or medivac, [1] is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to patients requiring evacuation or transport using medically equipped air ambulances, helicopters and other means of emergency transport including ground ambulance ...