AgustaWestland AW189 unveiled at Paris Le Bourget

[RavenOne]

Dear all,

Midweek at Paris Le Bourget I was drenched on the wednesday anyhow, slightly remiss of me not to post up my pics anyhow to start off with this new 8 tonne mockup of AW189

I'd see it as a rival to the EC-225 / AS-332 for the offshore marketplace as their smaller AW139 is already a competitor against the S-76 in that range and the AW169 against the EC-155/AS-365.

Cheers

 

[Grey Havoc]

Seems that at least one of the two remaining bidders in the U.K.'s current SAR competition has put forward the AW189 as part of their tender:
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/uk-sar-contest-down-to-two-bidders-380907/

 

[Pioneer]

I think it's somewhat ironic how this 'new' AW189 reminds me so much of the abandoned 'enlarged' Westland 30 design - Itself an enlarged development of the Lynx, which was promoted and flown in the 1980's, but sadly failed to gain orders and production.

Regards
Pioneer

 

[yasotay]

At the risk of having the asthetics discussion roll onto this thread, it and the Bell 525 seem very similar.