U.S. Army To Test Lakota Rotary-Wing Training Alternatives

Credit: Tony Osborne / Aviation Week
LONDON—The U.S. Army is planning to trial potential alternative rotary-wing training systems as it mulls a shift away from using the Airbus UH-72 Lakota Light Utility Helicopter. Forty companies responded to a request for information (RFI) issued by the service last October, and the Army plans to...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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