The US concern Boeing has returned to the ILA, where it is focusing on its helicopter division. Information is available not only about the current models, AH-64 Apache, H-47 Chinook and the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey, but also about the light combat and reconnaissance helicopter, the AH-6i. Details will also be provided about project studies such as the Disc Rotor and a Joint Common Airlift System, a fuselage with wings onto which a choice of jet engines or rotors can be mounted. Also on show will be a model of the Future Transport Helicopter, designed to meet the future needs of the German and French armed forces. The 20 metre long fuselage has the internal dimensions of a C-130 Hercules and would be able to carry a load of some 36 tonnes. Boeing were not willing to comment on the announcement by the head of Eurocopter, Lutz Bertling, concerning a joint venture on this project. The US armed forces have so far not indicated any need for such a helicopter, according to Dave Jones, Director Rotorcraft Strategy & Programme Development.