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NH90 success story - Royal New Zealand Air Force - Ohakea Airbase

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Egress trials with a New Zealand NH90 in March 2012

AIRheads↑FLY  – SPECIAL:NEW ZEALAND – A NH90 SUCCESS STORY

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New Zealand’s NH90 story also had its downsides. There was a delivery delay of 3 years, compensated with 1,4 billion US dollars by NHIndustries. And one of the brand new NH90s was damaged up to 9 million dollars in September 2013 after a lightning strike damaged its tail and main rotors plus parts of the fuselage while the machine was on the ground. But the delay and lightning strike that didn’t have an impact on the operational capabilities of the New Zealand armed forces as a whole, like it did in Sweden.


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Christian Albrecht's insight:

continue at: http://airheadsfly.com/2014/12/27/ahf-special-new-zealand-nh90-success-story/




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