Word: 56a
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...weapons systems, including the Army MBT-70 tank (prime contractor: General Motors), the Navy LHA assault-ship program (Litton) and the Air Force Short-Range Attack Missile (Boeing). Last week all the censure converged on two huge defense projects, the Air Force C-5A transport and the Army AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter. Both are built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., whose $2.2 billion in sales last year were made almost entirely to the military. Lockheed is the nation's second-biggest defense contractor, after General Dynamics...
...sleeve. The Army had earlier awarded the company an $86 million development contract for an aircraft to ride shotgun for the vulnerable troop-carrying helicopters in Viet Nam. Last week at Van Nuys Airport, Calif., Lockheed put its answer in the air: a prototype of the radical AH-56A Cheyenne-a combination helicopter and fixed-wing plane-gave a 15-minute display of its capabilities for members of the military, Government and the press...
...Army has indicated that it wants 600 of the craft, for which it would pay about $1,000,000 apiece. The final decision, however, rests with the Department of Defense. Should the defense order come through, Lockheed will have funds to permit further exploitation of the AH-56A design. Company Chairman Daniel J. Haughton thinks there will be a good foreign market for the Cheyenne, and Lockheed engineers are already studying a 30-passenger commercial version called the CL-1026 for intracity travel. Beyond that, the company envisions a 90-passenger model that could cruise at 500 m.p.h. over...
...week at its Van Nuys, Calif., plant, Lockheed rolled out a bug-eyed brute of a prototype that is not only faster and more sophisticated than any helicopter now flying in Viet Nam but is also a long technological hop ahead of anything in the industry. Designated the AH-56A Cheyenne, Lockheed's AAFSS is a "compound" aircraft. Like a conventional helicopter, the single-turbine Cheyenne has a main rotor and tail-mounted stabilizing rotor for hovering and vertical takeoffs and landings. In the air, a simple twist of the control-stick grip sets the pitch of the rear...