{"id":177870,"date":"2019-05-18T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/18\/the-return-of-the-ah-56-apache\/"},"modified":"2019-05-18T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:06:00","slug":"the-return-of-the-ah-56-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/18\/the-return-of-the-ah-56-apache\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the AH-56 Apache"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ME6l7X3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ME6l7X3.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Proposed Apache Update<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WSixdpp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WSixdpp.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>AH-56 Apache<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Boeing is proposing <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/news\/boeing-shows-how-high-speed-apache-gunship-will-look-like.html\">a major update to its Apache attack helicopter<\/a>, that the similarities between it and the 1960s vintage AH-56 apache are striking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. aerospace manufacturer Boeing has shown footage of high-speed version of Apache attack helicopter during the Vertical Flight Society\u2019s 75th Annual Forum &amp; Technology Display.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Warwick posted images of the Apache gunship concept and photo of a scale model of a new helicopter that was unveiled by the Boeing on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The concept, called the Advanced AH-64 Block 2 Compound, is developing to serve as a gap filler in a U.S. Army Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program.<\/p>\n<p>Jane\u2019s Defense Weekly early reported that the new gunship will feature an enlarged main wing, revised engine exhaust arrangement, large vertical tail fin, and a rear-mounted pusher propeller. The design may also feature a new, rigid rotor system, which is a standard feature on other compound helicopter designs.<\/p>\n<p>Also the Rotor &amp; Wing International said that Boeing already has conducted wind tunnel testing of a scale model of a high-speed Apache gunship.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The similarities between the two helicopters, both in appearance and concept, are striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed Apache Update AH-56 Apache Boeing is proposing a major update to its Apache attack helicopter, that the similarities between it and the 1960s vintage AH-56 apache are striking: U.S. aerospace manufacturer Boeing has shown footage of high-speed version of Apache attack helicopter during the Vertical Flight Society\u2019s 75th Annual Forum &amp; Technology Display. Graham &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,383,389,379],"class_list":["post-177870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-helicopters","tag-history","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}