Basler BT-67 Multi-Mission Patrol Aircraft (MMPA) For the Philippines

    The Basler Turbo Conversions BT-67 is an excelent proven transport aircraft with an impressive resume of performance.  It's robust airframe and state-of-the-art components stand ready to deliver a range of special mission capabilities that will provide unlimited opportunities. It is an affordable aircraft with:

• Low acquisition costs
• Low operation costs
• Heavy payload capability
• Excellent short field capability
• Stage III quiet
• Advanced avionics package
• Proven in-service modifications for different configurations

Basler BT-67 with PT-6 engines and Hartzell propellers

    The Basler BT-67 is a new-condition aircraft with the proven tough and very reliable Douglas C-47 design; strengthened, stretched and re-engineered to exceed original specifications.  It is rated as "zero accumulated fatigue damage" fuselage with new interior corrosion protection, stretched 40-inches (forward of wing); with the center and outer wings reinforced in 250 places to reduce loads on lower wing attach angles and to support the increased maximum gross weight. The wings have redesigned outer leading edges and wing tips for better aerodynamics. All workmanship and materials meet the highest standards of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Basler BT-67 modified nose for sensors and MAD in tail

    The Basler BT-67 is powered by the proven Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R engine series that is certified to FAR Part 33 amendment 10, with Hartzell 5-blade aluminum reversing propeller. This reliable and efficient combination is certified to FAR Part 36 stage III quiet standard.

Proven Reliable Economical Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R engine

    The Basler BT-67 is equipped with new systems including Avionics, Autopilot, Electrical, Hydraulics, Fuel, Air conditioning, Stall Warning, Oxygen, and Fire protection, among others. These has resulted in:

Specialized modifications

• 35% more interior volume
• 43% more useful load
• 24% more speed
• Up to 100% more fuel capacity
• Lower stall speed
• Lower approach speed

Latest Technology Panel and Avionics

Night Vision Goggle compatible cockpit

    The Basler BT-67 can be specially configured to suit the different requirements of the government of the Philippines, including the Armed Forces, Defense and civilian departments. It can loiter over an area for ten hours utilizing its very low stall speed capability. Single-engine performance was improved by a new propeller to tackle single-engine emergencies, as required by the U.S. military.

The advantages of the Bassler BT-67, proven across many Air Forces, including the US

• Cost - you can acquire more than twice the number of aircraft with the given budget
• Customizable - based on myriad configurations of past modifications, for an exact needed configuration
• Very rough field capability - based on a proven tough reliable platform, making more airfields accessible
• Multi Misson - cargo, gunship, passenger; and civilian roles - Survey, Firefighting, Rainmaking, Search and Rescue
• Low stall speed - for more effective Search and Rescue

BT-67 Payload - Range Matrix

At sea level, ISA, and 30,000 lb MTOW, the BT-67 will clear a 35' obstacle in 1036 meters making it a good STOL aircraft given its size.

Through the different BT-67 configurations, it has been proven that belly and wing hardpoints can handle heavy loads similar to Close Air Support aircraft.


Basler Turbo Conversions’ long experience on different role versions of the BT-67 can provide the following roles and capabilities:

• Maritime Patrol Aircraft

  

  Science Modifications suited for MPA

  

  Military Options

• Cargo Aircraft

  

  Room for 40 Paratroopers and Cargo

• ASW Aircraft

  

  Tethered sensor

• Gunship

  

  Gunship with FLIR ball

  

  Fuerza Aérea Colombiana gunship twin side firing guns
  
  

  
  

• Survey Aircraft

  

  Spectrem Basler BT-67 for Aerial Survey

• Firefighting Aircraft

  

  US Forest Service

• Rainmaking Aircraft

  

  Thai Air Force cloud seeding

• Executive Aircraft

  

  Comfortable seating

Worldwide Operators

Civilian operators

Basler added upper lip door to accomodate five LD3 containers

•     Aerocontractors, United States
•     Antarctic Logistics Centre International (ALCI), South Africa
•     Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
•     Basler Airlines
•     Bell Geospace Aviation, Inc, United States
•     Cargo North

  

  Cargo North

•     Kenn Borek Air, Canada
•     Polar Research Institute of China, China[3]
•     Spectrem Air Surveys, South Africa
•     United States Forest Service, United States
•     World Air Logistics, Thailand

Military operators

• Bolivian Air Force
• Colombian Air Force

  

  Fuerza Aérea Colombiana gunship with FLIR ball

• Colombian National Police
• El Salvador Air Force
• Guatemalan Air Force
• Malawi Air Force
• Mali Air Force
• Mauritanian Air Force
• Royal Thai Air Force

  

  Royal Thai Air Force

• United States Air Force

  

  U.S. Special Operations in Afghanistan with FLIR ball

Basler Turbo Conversions has produced more than sixty BT-67's. Indicative pricing from open sources puts the basic BT-67 aircraft price at $6.5 million (2012), and an aircraft equipped with maximum capability would probably run at $15 plus million.

The New 777X

In   'Boeing Opens Up 777X Site Contest After IAM Rejection'   http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_11_14_2013_p0-636700.xml

Future Boeing 777-9 Sub-Jumbo Airliner

This is what I wrote:

rengab

3:33 AM on 11/14/2013

Final assembly of the 777X will still be in Everett but will be highly automated with much reduced labor force.

The composite wings will either go to South Carolina or Long Beach. Now to solve the logistics with even more cavernous and longer Dreamlifters.

General trend is Boeing will go to better labor areas out of Puget Sound.

In South Carolina, by the time the 777X wings will go into production, labor expertise will have risen to accomplish the job with good quality. Automation will also rise in composite production.

Puget Sound lost from high labor expectations.

Standing Up The Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Boeing 787 - Out of the Smoke

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has become a bit of a nightmare to the Boeing company recently, with its high power electrical system, backed up by its big Lithium Ion batteries. The dawn is apparently coming with the recent FAA permission given to Boeing to test and certify the solutions to the Lithium Ion batteries problems of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The FAA and NTSB has become overly cautious to the point of grounding even the flight test Boeing 787 Dreamliners of the Boeing company. Flight test pilots and engineers are very aware of the risks of their jobs and they are paid for this. If the flight test Boeing 787 Dreamliners have been permitted to fly, more data could have been collected to get to the bottom of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner electrical system battery problems. It might possibly have expedited the provision of solutions.

Dreamliner Taking Off, Again

As far as fire is concerned, the biggest fire in an airliner occurs continuously in its big turbofan engines. But as it is designed to be contained and controlled, it does no harm to the airliner. Thus, I think the FAA and NTSB is overacting on the battery issue with its '1,000% safety requirement' pronouncements. And possibly, they might never pinpoint the actual causes of the two different JAL and ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner battery fires.

Dreamliner over calm waters

From recent media reports, it seems Boeing will provide these solutions to stand up the Boeing 787 Dreamliner soonest to put it on service safely:

1. Safe Batteries - design, materials, fabrication, quality assurance, maintenance, more granular monitoring
2. Safe Electrical System - proper algorithms, safe electrical components, additional battery electrical isolation and protection
3. Safe Containment - fireproof case, gas venting to outside, no damage to surrounding components and structure

Dreamliner Future - Boeing 787-10

I will suggest the following additional measures:

1. Easy removal of battery case if it's on fire
2. Built in fire suppression system for the batteries
3. Fly the flight test Boeing 787 Dreamliners as airliners to monitor the aging process specially the high power electrical system, and composite main structures
4. Heavier monitoring of the first 50 Boeing 787 Dreamliners built, and those that were laid up for a long time and underwent repeated modifications before delivery
5. Add more physical switches able to isolate major electrical sub systems

I hope to see the Boeing 787 Dreamliner flying again carrying passengers safely in direct long-range city to city routes. No more plane changes in congested airport hubs.

B787 Dreamliner Off To Bright Future