Talk:Helibras

Photos
Can we have photos of individual aircraft which were built in Brazil? All the photos which I removed were of airframes built in France or Germany. This seems silly. This would be like showing pictures of VWs made in Germany on the VW Brazil page, with no images of VWs that were actually produced in Brazil. - BillCJ (talk) 22:10, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

URGENT
It is stated in this article that Helibras is the manufacturer of the NH90 helicopter. This simply isn't the case. Unless someone can provide a reference for this wild claim, I will remove it in 24 hours. In the meantime I have placed a "citation needed" on the claim.

Benjym (talk) 14:27, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Products
Right, I see what's happened here, someone thinks that because Helibras is a subsidiary of Eurocopter it therefor manufactures all of Eurocopter's models. Again, this isn't the case. For a start, the Tiger is not manufactured in Brasil. Again, if Brasil launched a requirement for an attack helicopter, I am prepared to concede that Eurocopter would propose the Tiger and that it would probably be built by Helibras - but this isn't the case right now. Therefor I am going to edit the "products" list in this article to only include types built in Brazil. If anyone thinks I have made a mistake, please post a follow-up here.

Benjym (talk) 12:34, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Debate
I've had a look at the history page for this article and it seems that there's a trend of people making changes to the "products" section and then other users reverting those changes. I suspect there's an issue over the types that are actually constructed in Brazil and the types simply marketed by Helibras, the resulting orders being filled from the European assembly lines. If anyone has any thoughts on this then please add a comment below.

Benjym (talk) 12:46, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I think that we should at least differentiate the models produced or assembled in Brazil from those assembled in Europe, but for which Helibras is probably a subcontractor at some level. However, the Helibras website doesn't make a distinction between the two, at least not one that's apparent to a non-Portugues speaker/reader. I have asked for input from a user from South AMerica (Spanish-speaking), as I don't know of any Portuguese/Brazilian users that I could contact. - BillCJ (talk)
 * Hello,i am a brazilian....i have taken a look at the helibras website and from what i could gather from the "products" (produtos) section,despite the fact that only recently it was announced that they would initiate the expansion of their instalations to be possible to produce/facricate/make the ec 725,it lists it as a product too....i think that is more than enough proof that the website,as you have said does not make a disctition between the two.(the factory ampliation/expansion is,as per the coming link only said to be done at ~2013.)


 * here is the link (in brazilian portuguese unfortunately) to the aforementioned factory ampliation announced.