****************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Helicopters are cool machines. They are proof that if you put enough horsepower into anything, it'll fly. I've never flown in my favorite helicopter--- a Bell 214 ST. Maybe someday. It's the ultimate 'musclecar' of the copter world.....Here's a list of helicopters I've flown on, smallest to biggest, with the common nickname if any. Bell 47 (like in M*A*S*H). Robinson R44 (little entry level copter). MD500 ('Angry Egg' like in Magnum PI). B-3 'A-Star'. 206 (Jet Ranger). 206L (Long Ranger). UH-1H (Huey). 205, (the old copter 2). 212 (Copter One). 412 (the new Copter 2). Aerospatiale Dauphine. CH-46. (Sea Knight) UH-60 (three versions---SeaHawk, FireHawk, BlackHawk) BV-107, and the CH-47 (Chinook).
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As long as you've never flown in an OH-6 Cayuse. They are evil.
If you don't know what I'm talking about - see this movie...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One
The OH-6 is the military version of the MD 500. I have flown in a Bell 47, Hughes 300, BK117, Hiller UH-12 UH-60 (US Customs), Military Huey, OH-58, Bell 206 Jet Ranger, and 206LIV Long Ranger. I have flown MD 500D, 500E, 520N, Bell 205++, EC120B, A-Star B2, A-Star B3, and EC 130B4 and R22. Well that's all I can think of anyway..... I need to come down and get a ride in your new 412.
CLimb in a 212 and sit on a running chainsaw during any transitional maneuver or hover. It is very fast to respond to input----the 212 you have to plan for a little drift but no tthe 412. Makes the hoistwork more precise
Cool. The 214 IS awesome. I've seen one landing 50-60 feet away, but that's the closest I've ever been.
Not quite the list that you have.
There was that one that we took to see the volcano in Hawaii-(but I have no idea what that was).
Then there was that time I was hiking in SD and needed to be airlifted out of a riverbed. That was fun.
looking up
And once flew around a night patrol with these guys in their Eurocopter EC120.
N121PD
I can't believe you guys get paid to do that every day.
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I wonder if something like a Flettner Fl-282, would be good for search missions.
It was aused by the Nazi's
As for Prestoffcenter's comment - did you do that rescue, Steve?
Aside from that, my copter list is pretty simple: a Bell 407.
Uh, yeah. That's my chin in the picture, but isn't it suspicious that the 'victim' was holding a camera , we were in each other's wedding parties, and I knew him before I had a driver's license?
LOL. Suspicious indeed...
Cool.
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