Future Lynx on track?
 

The outcome of PR08 still seems a little fuzzy and especially regarding Future Lynx. I often wonder if AW know more than they are letting on about the matter and an event yesterday only confirms my suspicions.

AgustaWestland picks GE for cockpit displays

Am I being ignorant to the tight timelines here that have forced AW to spend such monies or is this a tactic to ensure the project survives?

Answer on a post.

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Postage stamp!

Postal order for £5?

Posting away from a lynx Sqn?

:E

Is it true that ....


a) Future Lynx will be called "WILDCAT"?

b) All WILDCATs (including the AAC) will be based at Yeovilton?

Answer is Yes to both questions, provided the Flynx project survives.

Has Yeovilton got the infrastructure to cope with the AAC arriving? Probably not but they will realise that when there is about 6 months before the first Squadron arrives and then there will be a mad panic to build houses and schools etc, etc

As I am linked to this project, albeit a little remoted, I can tell you that Wildcat is to be the name used by the RN only and the Army is to use something else.

Yeovilton is not the declared site for AAC yet as project Belvedere has not made any final decision and RNAS Y was only one of a number of variables.

"Something else"?

What a dull name for a helicopter. Shows a total lack of imagination......

something else
 

I thought "something else" was quite good myself.
There have already been several versions of Lynx, and most of them look pretty much the same. This new future lynx still looks much like any other, so at least calling it "something else" might make it stand out!

PLUS, the term something else, is often used in a context to show very poor quality or sloppiness

e.g (referring to a badly cooked fry up) that breakfast is "something else"

Barnstormer1968 ...it's only banter:E

But Project Belveder stated that the Wildcat would all be based at the same airfield and seeing as the Wildcat (RN) is to be based at Yeovilton then it also means that the Wildcat (AAC) will also be based at Yeovilton.

Yeovilton belongs to FLEET and not LAND so i cannot see that the new 9 Regt would move there, so until BELVEDERE delivers we will have to wait and see.

AgustaWestland picks GE for cockpit displays
GE Aviation to supply cockpit displays for 100 AgustaWestland helicopters for more than $55M
July 14, 2008: 08:22 AM EST



NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Italy's AgustaWestland has selected a unit of General Electric Co. to supply cockpit display systems for 100 of its helicopters in a contract valued at more than $55 million over 10 years, GE said Monday.

What is new in Zukunft Lynx, aside from the GE dashboards?

Is the cabin to be larger?

Spheroid

Wildcat is the Ryal Navy derivitive (Umm spelling bee to check please).

Future Lynx Army is likely to be called Mohawk I believe, which may or may not be based at Yeovilton and as posted it is dependant on the results from Belvedere.

ISTR the Belvedere was famous for its inability to supply anything more than a packet of Biscuits Brown more than 1nm from base. So don't hold your breath. Or maybe its apt...

Why is one aircraft type to have two names (allegedly)? This is madness, especially as the airframes are common (sponsons and wheeled undercarriages all round) and a Naval variant could be roled to an Army variant and vice versa, albeit unlikely. All technical information would have to reflect both names or else two sets may be needed.

Where has Mohawk come from? Why might we be calling a UK designed and built helicopter after an American Indian tribe? Wildcat ticks all my boxes - alliterative (Westland Wildcat), follows the cat theme (Lynx, Puma) and links back to the Grumman Wildcat in use with the RN WW2.

What is wrong with calling it a Lynx HMA Mk 10 and AH Mk 11, or even Lynx II? Lets face it, it still looks like a Lynx. Harrier went through the change from GR3 to GR5 and kerpt the name even though it was a different airframe.

More importantly however, what would the IPT be called?

Lynxman, why is it more impotant that we ponder the name of the IPT?

The name of the airframe will not disguise the fact that it is a Lynx, a little bit like when the artist formally known as Prince changed his name, it was always Prince really!;)

To misquote some bloke who's name escapes me;

Two names has been done before......Scout & Wasp

If only SABR or whatever it used to be called WAS something else.... like a UH-60 or an NH-90...

Have whatever you want as long as it's made in Yeovil: ooh look, smart procurement at work.

S41

Isnt the SABR requirement now part of the FMH project?

What about calling it the "Sidrat" (which is just Tardis in reverse) because it looks quite big on the outside but when you try and get in with all your gear it's like being in a phone box - just more oil.