Polish AVIATION VALLEY & PZL

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Have just found in my Email the following link Sikorsky Accepts Prototype Turkish Utility Helicopter From PZL Mielec | Aero-News Network having been send by a good friend (New Flight Test Facility Operational as First S-70i Black Hawk Helicopter Deliveries Approach).

Leszek had been till 2010 test pilot of PZL Swidnik SA and you also will recognize him in the ‘autorotion videos’ (B412 video).

BTW: German Bundeswehr (WTD 61 at Manching) needs within 2018 also a new test bed, but for other purpose (see Page 3 – Page 5 in https://www.esg.de/fileadmin/spektru...ektrum06-1.pdf) It should become a Sikorsky H60 or a S70i with ‘high gear’ like FireHawk, because >90 cm of ground clearance are needed for the new system.