Fledgling Swiss helicopter developer Kopter believes its SH09 programme is on track again following a setback discovered last year when a supplier was found to have delivered nonconforming gearbox parts. Kopter's third SH09 prototype - P3 - received an upgraded gearbox at the beginning of September and has since accumulated around 10 flight hours from the company's test centre in Pozzallo in Sicily.
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