Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heavy Transport Helicopter

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The result was keep. Withdrawn by me, and moved to Future Transport Helicopter ♠PMC♠ (talk) 16:56, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Heavy Transport Helicopter

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I admit to not being an aviation specialist, but it basically looks like this project never materialized and never generated much attention. I found periodic mentions of it through the years, but nothing particularly in-depth. No mention on the Airbus website.

This is complicated by the fact that "Heavy Transport Helicopter" is also a generic descriptor, but even adding Eurocopter or Airbus (now the owners of Eurocopter) to the search produced little of value.

I'm happy to withdraw if more knowledgeable parties have sources I wouldn't have thought to check. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 10:45, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Augh, I just realized the German article has a couple of decently in-depth sources ([2], [3], [4]). I'm genuinely upset with myself because usually interlanguage links are the first thing I check to poach sources from. Also, it looks like in German the terminology was "Future Transport Helicopter", which also hampered some of my other Googling. Chiswick Chap, would you consider changing your delete vote so this can be withdrawn? And also, would anyone object if I moved this to "Future Transport Helicopter" in order to free up "heavy transport helicopter" to be an article about the general type of helicopter? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:01, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. ^{Babymissfortune} 11:37, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. ^{Babymissfortune} 11:37, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~Keep, ~~nom seems to be right that this never went anywhere, but happy to be corrected if anyone knows better.~~Happy to go along with nom's changes above, including a move to "Future Transport Helicopter". The article's title could certainly find a use on the broader topic of heavy transport helicopters (there are American and Russian ones, and maybe a Chinese one in the pipeline), but this article isn't that. Best start over. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:20, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Indecisive although a broader European solution failed and the programme stalled, the text has some historical value. It is now part of the narrative of Germany's renewal plans for its heavy helicopter fleet. In a few years they will replace their CH-53's with some 60-120 heavy helicopters - most likely of an existing design. Here's an article from 2017 about the HTH-programme: ^[1] MoRsE (talk) 23:07, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

::Hmmmm. I'm not sure that one source is enough for a standalone article. Would it be better off merged somewhere? A section in Eurocopter, or European Defense Agency? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:46, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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