Ghanz wrote:Navy Lynx wrote:
Some say that it's a Cougar iso Super Puma
Scramble DBase saying a AS532UL that's a Cougar according Google?
Someone know's the real type of aircraft
It's a Cougar according Eurocopter too:
http://www.eurocopter.com/site/FO/scrip ... noeu_id=99
I also read on the Airliners.net A/C data sheet for the Super Puma that the Cougar is the military derivative of the civilian Super Puma. Which is backed-up by the eurocopter site as the Super Puma is listed under civi and the Cougar under military.
But maybe it's going a little bit of-topic here???
Greetz,
Hans
The french use Super Puma for the 332's and Cougar for their 532's but
the swiss use Super Puma for their 332's and 532's as well.
wikipedia says: The cougar (Puma concolor), also puma.
First flown in April 1965 as the Sud Aviation SA 330A Alouette IV, the French Puma was designed to fill an Aviation Legere del l' Armee de Terre (French Army Aviation) requirement for a medium troop transport helicopter.
In February 1967, a Franco - British agreement for helicopter production was signed between Sud Aviation and the British Westland covering licence production in UK of 48 SA330Es which were to be known as Puma HC.1s in RAF service and the production of 292 SA341 Gazelles. In return the French were granted licence production of 40 Westland Lynx helicopters.
In France, The Puma was in production until 1984 and a total of 692 Puma's had been sold by the end of manufacture although they were still produced in Romania by IAR at the end 1990s.
A growth version of the successful SA.330, the Super Puma first flew in September 1977. Fitted with twin 1330kW Turbomeca Makila 1A1 turbine engines, composite rotor blades, improved landing gear and modified tail fin, the Super Puma has been made in both short and long fuselage versions.
In 1990 all Super Puma designations were changed from AS 332 to AS 532 Cougar to distinguish between civil and military variants.
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