Date:
27 Jan 2004
Time: 21:51
The RFP for the 21st Annual Student Design Competition for a mountain rescue helicopter (sponsored by AHS International and Agusta Westland) has been released and letters of intent to propose are requested by 23 April 2004. A decision on the winner will be announced on 13 August 2004 – first place prizes of US$ 1000 for graduate and undergraduate students are on offer. The objective of the RFP is the design of a helicopter conceived for high altitude rescue operations, certifiable for single pilot day/night IFR operations with cruise speed of at least 145 knots. Last year, for the 20th Annual Student Design Competition, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and NASA challenged participants to develop a VTOL Urban Disaster Response Vehicle that could perform high rise fire fighter deployment, rooftop occupant extraction, building face penetration and occupant recovery, ground pump water cannon fire fighting, self contained tank water cannon fire fighting and disaster command and control. For further details, please access the American Helicopter Society website on http://www.vtol.org/pdf/sdc04rfp.pdf