Milestones and Prior Decisions:

• Stakeholders selected WC/Co and Tribaloy® 400 as potential alternatives, based on previous test results.
• Meeting held at Sikorsky on March 22, 2001; mutual interest in project established.
• Meeting held at Boeing Philadelphia on June 12, 2001; mutual interest in project established.
• Meeting held at US Army Aviation and Missile Command on June 13, 2001 to obtain Army buy-in to project.

Date of last meeting: 23 March 2006
Next scheduled meeting: TBD

The March 23, 2006 meeting was to identify and discuss additional material and component testing that would be beneficial to ensure transition and also to identify funding sources to support the testing phase. Attendees included representatives from NRL, ARL, Sikorsky, Bell Helicopter, NAVAIR, AMCOM, FRC-E Cherry Point, and the JG-PP. Presentations were made by NRL, Bell Helicopter, FRC-E Cherry Point. For more information about this meeting, please click here. Enter “hcatguest” for user ID and “hcat” (both without the quotation marks) for the password. Scroll down and click on HVOF ON HELICOPTER DYNAMIC COMPONENTS, then click on MEETINGS.

The March 17-18, 2004 meeting was for final development of the JTP. Attendees included representatives from the NRL, ARL, Sikorsky, Boeing, Bell Helicopter, NAVAIR, AMCOM, FRC-E Cherry Point and thermal spray experts from private industry. NRL made a presentation providing an overview of the project and summarizing the anticipated lowering of the hexavalent chromium permissible exposure limit by OSHA. The three helicopter OEMs made presentations on their analysis of hard chrome usage on dynamic components from their military helicopters and FRC-E Cherry Point made a presentation on anticipated rig testing on HVOF thermal spray coatings deposited on dynamic components.

For more information about this meeting, please click here. Enter "hcatguest" for user ID and "hcat" (both without the quotation marks) for the password.