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The TAI Hürku is a tandem two-seat, low wing, single engine, turboprop aircraft being developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) as a new basic trainer and ground attack aircraft for the Turkish Armed Forces.
The aircraft is named after Vecihi Hürku, Turkey's first aviator.


The TAI Hürku Development Program started with an agreement signed between Turkish Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (Savunma Sanayii Mustesarligi (SSM)) and TAI in March 2006. Under the agreement the company will design, manufacture and complete the civil certification the aircraft to EASA CS 23 standards.
The Hürku will be equipped for day and night flying as well as basic pilot training, instrument flying, navigation training, weapons and formation training. The aircraft will have cabin pressurization, ejection seats and an on-board oxygen generation system (OBOGS). Microtecnica of Turin, Italy has been selected to provide the aircraft's environmental control system.
In 2007 it was forecast that the first prototype would fly in late-2009 with first delivery, upon completion of the certification process, forecast for 2011. The date for first flight has now been delayed until mid-2011. The Turkish government has indicated that the aircraft is also expected to attract export sales.
Specifications (Hürku)

Data from TAI
General characteristics
Crew: one
Capacity: one passenger
Length: 11.17 m (36 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 9.96 m (32 ft 8 in)
Height: 3.70 m (12 ft 2 in)
Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68T turboprop aircraft engine, 1,200 kW (1,600 shp)
Propellers: 5-bladed Hartzell HC-B5MA-3
Performance
Cruise speed: 574 km/h; 357 mph (310 kn)
Stall speed: 143 km/h; 89 mph (77 kn)
Range: 1,478 km; 918 mi (798 nmi) at 15000 ft (4572 m)
Endurance: 4.25 hours at 15000 ft (4572 m)
Service ceiling: 10,577 m (34,700 ft)
G limits: +7/-3.5
Rate of climb: 22.2 m/s (4,370 ft/min)

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T-129 new camo

Hürkus compared to KT-1





The front design looks similar, the rear is different.

Some idiot Greeks will come and say Hürkus is a copy of KT-1 but all these trainers look the same, T-6, Pilatus etc.

The canopy and rear is similar to the PC-21..

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Griks In Despair

I want to see HQ photos...

There are photographers and journalists everywhere yet we don't see HQ photos around. If they don't release good photos, then what is their business there? faggots.

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any news about Anka ???

AS far as we are concerned, I think we will stick to our brand new T-6 Texan II aircraft, which was also chosen by USA, Cannada, Germany and Israel for their basic pilot training. Good luck Turks with your Hurkus or whatever........


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_T-6_Texan_II

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"The Turkish Cypriots looted, robbed and ravaged Greek Cypriot properties. They must start producing instead of being mere consumers. The Turkish Cypriots wanted to live without working!"

Major-General Bedrettin Demirel (1917-1988)
Commander of the Turkish Invasion Forces in 1974

Just avoid to fly close to the Syrian airspace !!

T-129 with AVCI

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Griks In Despair

Excellent,so armed Hurkus is on the way!It is nice to see another industrial achievement of Turkey.I always insist we should have buy or gain COIN aircraft similar to A-29 or KC-1C(armed KT-1)If we arm it for COIN missions(with FLIR,Rockets,GBUs,MK series bombs,ATGMs and MG/Cannon pods),more kekos will burn in hell! Anyway where can we see HD photos, Kamilreis might find them,but where?


For greeks,Hurkus is ready!

I like this craft. It does resemble the Korean KT-1 in the front half and the PC-21 in the rear half; but so what?

If it flies well and performs the required tasks, thats all that matters.

Are they planning to offer a civilian variant on the market as well? I love how its not a fighter jet but still has ejection seats. Whats the projected unit cost? Thanks in advance.

 

M

 

 

What we know is that it's gonna have at least 3 variants ;
1- with military grade avionics but without weapons for Military Training
2- without sophisticated avionics for civilian use
3- Basically version 1 with armament for COIN / CAS



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Assad be very afraid !




LOL





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Somebody get him out from that plane!

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He looks fearsome, what the hell you talking about ?







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Insallah bunada benzin koymayi unutmazlar.
I hope they'll not forget to put gas on it

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When are these Ataks gonna enter service? is it still 2013?






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Finally two HQ photos





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Atam izindeyiz!

Well we are progressing that's the good side, but we still have a gap of at least 70 years with the US in aerospace.

We finally managed to build a plane on par with the spitfire (although we still use a foreign engine)

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Turkiye Turklerindir (Mustafa Kemal Ataturk)

IT IS NOT AUTO-SHOW SO WHY IT DOESNT FLY

SO WHY YOU MADE THIS CEREMONY KEKO BAYAR

http://ekonomi.milliyet.com.tr/anka-ve-atak-haziran-da-goreve-basliyor/ekonomi/ekonomidetay/30.03.2012/1521838/default.htm

WHAT HAPPENED TO T-129 AND ANKA CEREMONY

ANOTHER FAIL?




-Atam Sen Kalkta Ben YATAM

Arabgötüsiken,götten sikisen ibne,after the roll-out,first engine start begins in gound tests,later other equipments begin to test and finally test fly process begins.Roll-out means assembly of first aircraft(serial or prototype one) completed and can begin test phase.Search and learn first,what is roll-out,then comment..

Anka did fly today, and it was also filmed by the media. Don't have time to search for it now, but saw it on TV...

They also showed old videos of T-129 P6... Didn't see the new camou'ed heli flying...

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What is roll-out today is Hurkus-A which is civil plane, it will receive EASA flight certificate.

Military training version Hurkus-B will be production ready by 2014-2015.

And it will follow tank-killer/COIN aircraft Hurkus-C with 1.5t of payload.

Hurkus-C is HUGE aircraft in its class, it can comparable to Pilatus PC-21; and its design quite similar to PC-21. On the other hand production of 40 KT-1T trainers has been finished by May; I think there will be no last aircraft delivery ceremony.

Altough it has been shadowed by Hurkus; First ANKA handed over to TurAF and first T129A handed over to Army. Huge operational evaluation is waiting both of them :D

Discover

Turk Insani Para Gibidir. Icine Isik Tut Ataturk Yoksa Sahtedir...

"""Well we are progressing that's the good side, but we still have a gap of at least 70 years with the US in aerospace.

We finally managed to build a plane on par with the spitfire (although we still use a foreign engine)"""



@Mods, I think Nutuk's account is hacked or compromised.

That kind of idiocy is not typical of this user.

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"Battles are fought with weapons, but they are won with information"

Most of the trainer platforms share similar characteristics. I think Hurkus is a great achievement, designed entirely by Turkish engineers. I am not a mechanical or aeronautical engineer but even designing a landing gear system requires 100s of 1000s of R&D hrs.

Not only we will fulfill our requirements but we will also export this platform, this will create new accounts with new opportunities for Turkey.

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Wasn't the landing gear designed by the Italians ?

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Griks In Despair

"@Mods, I think Nutuk's account is hacked or compromised.

That kind of idiocy is not typical of this user."

Orko is right, Nutellak son of Gloin aka is capable of much more idiocy

T129 did fly.

T129 did fly.


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dont give a **** if it flew or not, when is that **** gonna enter service in the TSK? it's been ******* ages.




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@mustafa
calm down.it is not good for your health.

Discover

Turk Insani Para Gibidir. Icine Isik Tut Ataturk Yoksa Sahtedir...

Discover

Turk Insani Para Gibidir. Icine Isik Tut Ataturk Yoksa Sahtedir...

Durng all ceremony, ANKA flew on sky...




Discover

Turk Insani Para Gibidir. Icine Isik Tut Ataturk Yoksa Sahtedir...

A close look to Aselsan AVCI




Discover

Turk Insani Para Gibidir. Icine Isik Tut Ataturk Yoksa Sahtedir...

First T129 to be handed over Turkish Land Forces; 1 of 60!

@Mods, I think Nutuk's account is hacked or compromised.

That kind of idiocy is not typical of this user.
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It just hurts dear Orko when realizing how much we lag in certain fields, it's incredible how politicians have wasted Turkish industrialization all those years.

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Turkiye Turklerindir (Mustafa Kemal Ataturk)

Am I the only one that thinks camo is like **** ? This bird should fly without camouflage painting , plain green is good enough I think .

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"It just hurts dear Orko when realizing how much we lag in certain fields, it's incredible how politicians have wasted Turkish industrialization all those years."

It's dumby to think about the past, we have managed to build a Male UAV and an COIN aircraft in some years. So we will (I hope) manage to build a 5th gen. aircraft.

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I like its camo, better than a green one. It has red white colors, which are in our Flag.

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Red and White ? are you color blind or something mate ? I only see green and yellow.

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T-129: green and yellow

Hurkus: red and white...

No problem...

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If Subject is Homeland of TURKS, Others are Details... - K. ATATURK

Oh god ! I felt like an Idiot

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Please everybody read what this son of a b!tch Ahmet Hakan wrote about Hurkus and TAI.


http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/20871265.asp

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Well , his article was about Erdogan , not Hurkus. But you are right at one point, I don't think "Ankara sanayicileri" can make such a thing.

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ahmetgötveren: "biraz zorlansa ankara'nin sanayi sitelerinde bile pekala üretebilecek türden zayif ve gücsüz bir ucagin kokpitinde poz vererek güya suriye'ye meydan okuyorsun."

"...biraz zorlansa ankara'nin sanayi sitelerinde bile üretebilecek..."
"...zayif ve gücsüz bir ucagin..."
"...güya suriye'ye meydan okuyorsun..."

acizane affiniza siginarak: ahmet hakan denen dansözlük ve döneklikle mesgul amcik hosafi... seninde, yazdigin hürriyet'inde, dogan holding ve bilahare aydin dogan'inda bilumum amk!!!

to keep a long story short: ahmet hakan; mind your own business u ****in' disgusting know it all! stfu and get lost!

umulurki google de arar, bulur ve okur götveren!

hürkus seems to be something between the swiss pilatus pc-9 and pc-21, specification & design wise. watch the designs and the specifications of pc-9 and pc-21 and u'll realize that hürkus is really a mix of both of them (some design of this, some hardware/tech of that...). so the outcome performance wise is also something between them:

^ Can you be more specific, how do you mean it's a mix of PC-9 and PC-21 what are you comparing?

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Griks In Despair

Please everybody read what this son of a b!tch Ahmet Hakan wrote about Hurkus and TAI.
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Well, his statements about Hurkus is not suitable but the substance of the article is true. When you pose like a big military power on a turboprop aircraft it is just funny.

in this video @2:53 the reporter is saying something about that 10 other nations were involved in the project (maybe "technical assistance" from some of them?!). 6 among them being from europe (maybe switzerland? > the immense similarity to pc-9 & pc-21 > what's with the armenian genosh!t?! i dunno. maybe behind the doors?! as far as i can remember there was a plan to cooperate with switzerland on this project. but regarding to the issue with the armoscums this plan was shelved, officially. just my thoughts and brainstorming. i'm not really sure about it - so, treat with caution. also treat with caution regarding the relation between "media & defence industry". as we all know the most part our media sucks at all.

furthermore, as we can see...:



...the elbit "america" logo right under the TAI logo at the and of the documentary. not direct purchase from uncle bibi but from oversea

nonetheless, i'm very proud of this project, we are taking long strides!

as me and my compatriots know: this is just the beginning...

@Combat_Master: i felt this question will come ok, wait dude.. i'll edit this post after collecting the specific information.. for me it seems like a "Schnittmenge" in the math...



to begin with we all know that trainer aircrafts look very similar to each other, but in this case i see way more similarities between the mentioned aircrafts.

an (interesting) information from kokpitaero in advance just by the way (written in yt):

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HÜRKU KT-1 LE AYNI MIDIR?

CEVAP: HAYIR...

Bu ikisi tamamen farkl uçak. D görünü olarak tamam tek motorlu, alttan kanatl, pilotlar tandem oturuyor ama kanat profilinden ini takmna, motor gücüne farkl uçaklar. Hürku 1600 hp motor, 310 kt sürat ve 2900 kg arlnda. KT1 950 hp motorla 261 kt uçuyor. MTOW 2775 kg.

kokpitaero

(as we can see, we can't compare hürkus to kt-1t, though they look very similar "at first glance")
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then again coming to my "claim": interestingly, i think..

design wise (aerodynamics) our hürkus is very similar to pc-9:




more pics of pc-9
http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/dokumentation/assets/aircraft/pc/pc9.html

more pics of pc-21
http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/dokumentation/assets/aircraft/pc21/fotos_pc21.html

but it has got the same engine as in the pc-21 (1600 hp)
and also the "Fünfblatt-Hartzell-Propeller" (not 4 like pc-9)

the g-limits are same with pc-9 (on paper)
but the climbrate is similar to pc-21 (on paper)
take-off/landing distances right between them both (on the paper)

max speed similar to pc-9 (same engine like pc-21, similar aerodynamics to pc-9; maybe the swiss one is better optimized/experience?) "everything on paper issue"

the pc-21 looks way more aerodynamic than our hürkus (and also than the pc-9, too).

this is not everything but to summarize for me the hürkus is an advanced pc-9 or how we might say, the better pc-9, with a touch of the pc-21.

hürkus:
http://www.tai.com.tr/tr/proje/hurkus

pc-9:
http://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/#43

pc-12:
http://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/#40

@Combat_Master: finally, after doing some research, i've found the "answer":

http://www.cockpit.aero/fileadmin/data/cockpit.aero/archiv/2011/1108.pdf

go to the page 7:

"Grossauftrag für 75 PC-7 MkII"

Auch an dieser Messe haben Swissmem
(Schweizer Maschinen- und Metall-Indus-
trie) zusammen mit der SAIG (Swiss Aero-
nautical Industries Group) den Schweizer
Pavillon in der Halle 4 organisiert. Betei-
ligt haben sich 15 Firmen, sie zeigten ein-
drücklich, was die Schweizer Aviatik-In-
dustrie zu leisten vermag. Als Beispiel sei
die in Grenchen domizilierte MECAPLEX
Ltd. erwähnt, ein führendes Unternehmen
für Mono- und Verbundverglasungen für
Flugzeuge und Helikopter. Pilatus Trainer
sind mit MECAPLEX-Cockpitverglasungen
ausgerüstet, unter anderem auch der PC-21.
Als neuester Kunde konnte die TAI Turkish
Aerospace Industries in Ankara gewonnen
werden, die zurzeit den neuen Basis Trai-
ner TAI Hürkus für die Türkische Luftwaffe
baut. Der erste Prototyp, der auffallend dem
PC-9 gleicht und mit der ähnlichen Pratt &
Whitney Canada Turboprop Turbine ausge-
rüstet ist, wird nächstes Jahr fliegen (bestellt
sind 50 Exemplare). Anscheinend will sich
die türkische Luftfahrtindustrie das Know-
how für die Herstellung von Flugzeugen an-
eignen, wurden doch bisher nur Flugzeuge
in Lizenz gebaut, so zum Beispiel die F/16.
RUAG Aviation, spezialisiert auf den Sup-
port für zivile und militärische Flugzeuge
und Helikopter, überraschte in Le Bourget
mit der Unterzeichnung eines Abkommens
mit Sikorsky Aerospace Services, gemäss
dem das RUAG Hubschrauber-Kompetenz-
zentrum Alpnach das autorisierte Kunden-
dienstzentrum (CSC) für die Hubschrauber-
plattform Sikorsky S-76 wird. RUAG bietet
den Betreibern einen umfassenden Kunden-
dienst, von Sikorsky ausgebildetes lokales
Personal ist für ein umfassendes Onsite-
Wartungsmanagement zuständig.
Die Pilatus Flugzeugwerke waren in Paris
mit dem PC-21 und dem Pilatus Porter ver-
treten. Offenbar ergatterten sich die Stanser
mit dem Verkauf von 75 PC-7 MkII an Indi-
en einen Grossauftrag im Wert von einer
Milliarde US-Dollar. Der Vertrag, der durch
Pilatus noch nicht bestätigt ist, könne opti-
onal bis zu 200 Stück erweitert werden. Die
PC-7 MkII setzte sich gegen die Muster Grob
G-120 TP, Embraer EMB-312 Super Tucano,
Alenia Aermacchi M-311, Hawker Beech-
raft T-6C Texan-II und KAI KT-1 Woongbi
durch. Der Preis war laut der indischen Luft-
waffe ein Argument für den PC-7, der eine
gewaltige Lücke im Ausbildungsprogramm
schliesst. In Bern bestätigte das Staatssekre-
tariat für Wirtschaft (Seco), das Geschäft
gutgeheissen zu haben, weil es sich um
unbewaffnete Trainingsflugzeuge handle.
Schon sehr bald sollen indische Piloten zur
Ausbildung in die Schweiz kommen.

MECAPLEX Grenchen fertigt Cockpitverglasung
für den türkischen TAI Hürkus-Trainer.
-> hmm, interesting (under the pic of "hürkus")

this article must be written before the clash with switzerland (armoscum issue / genosh!t).

now i remember something: the time where everything was ok there was a small pic of hürkus on the page of pilatus... i remember something like that but i'm not 100% sure. what is for sure is that a small pic of hürkus was related to the pilatus. hmm.. i can't really remember where i saw this really, like said before, if i'm not mistaken, it was on the website of pilatus.

p.s. if u want a proper translation of some parts of the article after trying perhaps over google translate, i can give u it.

after all i hope u are satisfied with my "tried to be specific" answer posts

hell no!! this article is from august 2011! WOW! :D (saw this too late, it's not that an old magazine)

thx u for your question combat, sayende neler bulduk!

dedigim gibi basta pilatus'la beraber bu isi halletmek istiyorduk, sinifinin en iyisi ve en iyileri tartismasiz isvicre'nin pilatus sirketinin oldugu icin. isvicre ermeni yasa tasarisini meclisten gecirdikten sonra türkiyede pilatusla bu isi halletmekten vazgecmisti. isvicrede dogup büyümüs, burda yasayan ve calisan, isvicrede askerlik yapmis bir vatandasiniz olarak isvicrenin bu akil almaz sacma sapan karari canimi fazlasiyla sikmisti. isvicrelilerle bir is yapabiliyorsaniz bu bir sanstir. adamlar highest quality, cutting edge, sofistike mofistike islerle ugrasiyorlar, almanlar gibi dikkatli düzgün prensipli sekilde calismanin yani sira.

if i find further information about this issue i'll let u know. now i have to go to sleep

http://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/Home/Archiv/Tuerkischer_Boykott_gegen_Pilatus_-_Bern_interveniert.html?cid=5133036

the boycott of turkey in 2006

now i really go to sleep!!

http://sc.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/schweiz/615846.html

if we didn't have a clash with switzerland regarding the armoscum issue in the past most likely we would have pilatus pc-21 in our inventory instead of the south korean kt-1t :-/ it is what it is...

one interesting thing now is the:

comparison between kt-1t and pc-9 regarding the performance.

replica of KT1. we should produce 100% turkish plane as we produced it in Ataturk`s times.