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FIDAE 2010: Boeing pitches consortium for Chinook operations in Latin America

5th April 2010 - 15:23 GMT | by Tony Osborne in Santiago, Chile

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Boeing is floating the idea of an international consortium to operate Chinooks in Latin America.

Joe McAndrew, VP of International Business Development for Europe, Israel and the Americas, said Boeing was working on ideas following the successful model proven by the NATO Heavy Airlift Wing, sharing C-17 flying hours between 10 countries.

'The C-17 SAC programme has been very successful, this is a model that works, we can take this model and use it on other products in different parts of the world,' McAndrew told Rotorhub.com at the FIDAE airshow in Santiago, Chile.

'We believe it is conceivable that a Latin

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Tony was deputy editor of Defence Helicopter and Rotorhub magazines before joining Aviation Week in …

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