Mecaer America, Inc. (MAI) located in Montreal, Canada has announced\nits selection by Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, as the Team\nInvictus partner responsible for the Landing Gear System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MAI is developing and will manufacture a fully retractable,\ntail dragger landing gear system which provides landing, take-off, taxiing and\nground maneuvering capabilities to the Bell 360 Invictus helicopter. This\nconfiguration contributes to the overall low-risk design that emphasizes\noperational availability, sustainability, and maintainability in the first\ngeneration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bell 360 prototype is being produced as part of the U.S.\nArmy\u2019s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Landing Gear System is comprised of the following\nsubsystems – Main and Tail Landing Gear Structure; Hydraulic Retraction Control\nSystem (with retract actuators, cockpit control panel, landing gear control,\nemergency operation and shut off valves); Hydraulic Brake System and Rolling\nStock (with reservoir, brake master cylinders, park brake valve, main wheel\nbrakes, main and tail landing gear wheels and tires).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Armando Sassoli – Executive Vice President said, \u201cWe are\nhonored to have been selected to team with Bell on the FARA program. I believe,\nour selection to develop the landing gear system for the Bell 360 Invictus\nfurther reflects the market\u2019s recognition of MAI as a trusted and reliable\npartner for any OEM launching a new aircraft program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MAI and its parent company provide landing system solutions\nand manufacturing to several major OEM\u2019s, the list includes Airbus Helicopters,\nBell, Collins Aerospace, Hanwha Corporation, Leonardo Aircraft Division,\nLeonardo Helicopter Division, One Aviation, Piper Aircraft, Safran and Turkish\nAerospace Industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mecaer America, Inc. (MAI) located in Montreal, Canada has announced its selection by Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, as the Team Invictus partner responsible for the Landing Gear System. MAI is developing and will manufacture a fully retractable, tail dragger landing gear system which provides landing, take-off, taxiing and ground maneuvering capabilities to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mecaer-Bell.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15819,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions\/15819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}