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Old 25th June 2003 | 19:58
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muffin
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The thing in your picture is actually an R22 wreck that a guy in the Midlands has converted into a sort of theme park toy helicopter. It was at the Air Sports show at Telford last year and both Whirlybird and I had a go for £10 for about 15 minutes. The engine has been replaced by a pair of hydraulic rams that tilt the body in two axes rather like a full motion simulator. It is powered by a 4 stroke lawnmower engine that pumps up the hydraulics.

The basic idea is OK, but the concept has not been developed past a very iffy prototype. The cyclic has been desensitised to such an extent that you have to waggle it from side to side like stirring a big pudding just to get the airframe to respond - nothing remotely like an R22.

The guy uses it at events like country fairs and shows to give farmers a sort of self drive fairground ride. A simulator it is not!
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