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Police Aviation News May 2011 26
A major milestone in the programme was a delivery at the AERO 2011 Expo in Friedrichshafen,
Germany today as Oleg Vasiliev, CEO of Chel Avia accepted delivery of the
first production MMA from Airborne Technologies.
Chel Avia operates the MMA in a wide range of missions including support for urban police/
homeland security and border patrol operations. Additionally they also deploy their first
MMA for non surveillance missions such as geodetic measurement activities. A significant
advantage of the MMA over competitors is that all sensor equipment is located within the
internal of the aircraft by using the retractable sensor suite developed and certified by Airborne
Technologies.
This MMA is equipped with a FLIR/POLYTECH Ultraforce 350 surveillance gimbal camera
operated via a sensor operator working environment including three monitor screens (RGB
video, infra-red video, moving map) and four control panels (serving the camera, data recorder,
downlink system and moving map). For transmitting video, audio and data from the
aircraft to a ground station a microwave digital BMS line-of-sight system is integrated. The
exact position of the aircraft and the geo-referenced camera footprint is displayed on a moving
map system from Euroavionics.
Eurocopter’s 1,000th Dauphin family helicopter was delivered last month to India’s Pawan
Hans Helicopters Limited, the world’s largest civilian operator of this successful twin-engine,
medium weight rotary-wing aircraft.
Pawan Hans’ milestone helicopter is an AS365N3 version, configured for offshore oil and
gas drilling missions, and it brings the Indian operator’s fleet to a total of 35 Dauphins.