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332 AS 332 Super Puma Tactical transport helicopter |
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The
Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-size
utility helicopter marketed for both civil and military use. This helicopter
was originally designed and manufactured by the French Company Aérospatiale.
The Aerospatiale SA 332 Super Puma is a development of the S A 330 Puma
with more powerful Turbomeca Makila turboshafts, multipurpose air intakes,
lightweight Starflex rotor head with uprated transmission and thermically
de-iced main rotor blades, and wider-track landing gear with single
wheels. Most of these features have already been test-flown on modified
SA 330 Pumas, and a fully representative SA 332 Super Puma prototype
first flew on 13 September 1978. Production of this new version was
commenced in August 1978, with the first completed SA 332C civil example
delivered (to Petroleum Helicopters) in 1981. In its initial commercial
form, the SA 332 Super Puma has the same capacity as the SA 330 (two
crew plus 19 passengers) but markedly superior performance. Yet greater
capability is offered by the 'stretched' version, the SA 332L Super
Puma, the prototype of which first flew on 10 October 1980. Compared
with the basic SA 332 Super Puma, the SA 332L has its fuselage lengthened
by 0.76 m in, and an extra window has been added on each side of the
forward fuselage. The 'stretch' increases passenger capacity to 24,
and the increased payload with the same fuel capacity initially meant
reduced payload/range performance. However, Aerospatiale has now developed
swept-back tips for the rotor-blade tips, and this permits an initial
increase in maximum take-off weight of 200 kg, with another increase
of 200 kg to be certificated later. The effect of this weight increase
is to boost the range performance of the SA 332L to a figure closely
comparable to that of the SA 332. |
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Main Variants | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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SA 332 Super Puma: development aircraft - SA 332C Super Puma: initial civil production version - SA 332L Super Puma: stretched version - SA 332M Super Puma: initial military production version, capable of carrying a slung load of 4000 kg in the transport role, or two Exocet ASMs in the anti-shipping role. - AS532 AL+: troop and load transportation, complex search and rescue (SAR), combat SAR missions as well as casualty evacuation - AS332 L1e: from passenger transportation, executive transportation to SAR - AS332 C1e: aerial work such as heavy sling, logging, power line maintenance. |
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Design | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The
SA 332 Super Puma was designed to withstand damage better, with a more
robust fuselage structure, a new crashworthy undercarriage and the ability
to withstand battle damage to the rotor blades and other key mechanical
systems. He is with a ventral fin under the tail a more streamlined
nose compared with the SA 330, while from the start was planned to be
available with two fuselage lengths, with a short fuselage version offering
similar capacity to the SA 330, which gives better performance in "hot
and high" conditions and a stretched version allowing more passengers
to be carried when weight is less critical. |
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Avionic and defence systems | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SA
332 Super Puma is equipped with full glass cockpit avionics and the
latest generation autopilot including 2 display and autopilot control
panels, 1 Integrated Standby Instrument System (ISIS) for airspeed,
altimeter and gyro-horizon back-up display, 1 redundant Vehicle Monitoring
System (VMS) with one redundant Aircraft Management Computer (AMC) and
two 4" x 5" LCD displays. Additionally, the Super Pumas can
be equipped with an advanced avionics cockpit. These enhancements include
Global Positioning System / Wide Area Augmentation System (GPS/WAAS)
navigation capability, instrument flight rules (IFR) capability, and
weather RADAR. Super Puma and flight crews will be capable of flight
in nearly all weather conditions, enabling a trauma patient on board
to reach a hospital emergency room when all other less capably equipped
helicopters will be stuck on the ground. For enhanced safety, Super
Pumas can be also equipped with Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System
/ Terrain Awareness and Warning System (EGPWS/TAWS), and a program Flight
Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA) program. |
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Propulsion | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The
SA 332 Super Puma is powered by two 1325kW Turboméca Makila turboshafts
driving a four blade main rotor and five blade tail rotor. AS 332L2
- Two 1375kW (1845shp) takeoff rated Turboméca Makila 1A2 turboshafts.Super
Puma is equipped with one fuel system of 2,020 litres usable capacity
comprising 6 tanks, arranged in 2 groups, 4 booster pumps, 1 transfer
pump and a low/high fuel level warning system. The pipes are of the
crashworthy type. Engine air intakes are protected against icing by
grids and heating mats on the air intake stub frames. |
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Armament | ||||||||||||||||||||||
SA 332
Super Puma can be equipped with a broad range of armaments including
7.62mm general purpose cabin-door machine guns (on pintle mountings),
7.62mm gun pods, rocket pods, anti-ship missiles and various makes of
air-to-surface missiles |
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