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29th Jun 2018, 04:57

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as350nut,

I share your opinions - had a close look at one at Heli Expo.

To me it seems to share the design philosophy of the Bell Ranger - 47J.

Steel tube frame anyone? Lots of screws. Seems that they took the 206L dynamics as a starting point then did everything else as cheap and nasty as possible.

With 20/20 hindsight, from an operators perspective, any helicopter model you see around with more than 20K hours in service on any one of them seems to be a benchmark. There are only a few.

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