View Full Version : Can anyone identify this heli?
dave_smith99
15th Feb 2006, 00:02
from circa 1969. piston or turbine?
http://www.redsky.org.uk/heli.jpg
Agaricus bisporus
15th Feb 2006, 00:10
Bell 47J
Piston
very odd side-mounted instrument panel and unconventional seating layout.
Looks awful, probably was.
rotormatic
15th Feb 2006, 00:17
http://www.bredow-web.de/ILA_2002/Helicopter/Bell_47J/Bell_47J.JPG
B Sousa
15th Feb 2006, 00:32
Better yet theres a picture of President Dwight Eisenhower flying out of the capitol lawn in one..........
Spunk
15th Feb 2006, 07:02
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/Captain407/HH8.jpg
Crieff-ite
15th Feb 2006, 08:44
zxcvbn
I'd hazard a guess at "The Champions"
At least I think it's called that? 60's/70's programme, 2 blokes and a girl with strange powers and good hearing :ok:
Plank Cap
15th Feb 2006, 14:52
That picture of the 47J in the garden has something to do with a certain Mr. Jagger being flown around the UK..........
PPRUNE FAN#1
15th Feb 2006, 17:09
You know, I'm probably showing my age here... but there were three different versions of the J-model. If you look at the horizontal stabilizer, you see that it has little teardrop endplates, indicative of the synch-elevator on the G-series. This makes the black/white ship a "straight" 47J with the Lycoming 435 engine. Doggy...really doggy. Later versions (J-2 and J-2A) came with the more muscular 540.
Vfrpilotpb
15th Feb 2006, 18:35
Wasn't this the early forerunner to the B206?, orhave I got some old facts mixed up??
Vfr
check
15th Feb 2006, 19:41
This thread prompted me to look back in my first logbook, and found the 47G3B1, 47J2, 47D,and 47H entered. Lovely machines, although the 47D I think it was, could be a handfull if you were too rough with it having wooden blades and no hydraulics. My memory is not what it used to be, assuming I used to have one, but the image of me with both hands on the cyclic trying to get out of a 60 degree bank with jack stall following a near miss with a fighter on a low level run to the ranges offshore in Lincolnshire comes back now and then. Happy days!!
and Tompkins
16th Feb 2006, 00:27
VFR PILOT,
Here's the forerunner of the JetRanger ... the OH-4A circa 1961. It was designed as a 4-place light utility helicopter for the US military. Equipped with an Allison T63 from the data I've seen.
http://www.hubschrauber.li/geschichte/sowars/images/bell_oh-4_206.jpg
It certainly wasn't pretty at first!
Tompkins
twinstar_ca
16th Feb 2006, 02:37
as i remember, the 47J was developed to capitalize on the success of the 47G but increase it's appeal to the corporate market... the cabin was stretched to allow for 3 seating on the bench behind the drivers seat... probably the easiest of all the early machines to get into... ;)
i know that when they were introduced into canada, there was a steep learning curve on how to work these machines in the bush... i remember reading of one driver who dug it out after a snowstorm in the north, only to find out that the tail boom was full of snow as well... you can guess what that did to the c of g.. :eek: :eek:
nick heli
16th Feb 2006, 09:38
Looks like the Film Flight 47 from mid 60s cant remember the reg,
Pilot John Crewdson !
chevvron
16th Feb 2006, 09:42
Whirlybirds had a '47J in addition to the G
RINKER
16th Feb 2006, 12:01
I'm not especially an Elvis Preseley fan but I'm sure on of his movies had him working for a helicopter operator as poss a pilot?.Flying 47j.Anyone remember the movie?
mongoose237
16th Feb 2006, 12:11
Paradise Hawaiian Style, 1966
Couple of 47Js
Simon853
16th Feb 2006, 13:06
near miss with a fighter on a low level run to the ranges offshore in Lincolnshire
Check,
Was that a red and white one that used to do (I think) crop spraying around the Holbeach area in the mid-late '80s? Used to sit at the edge of a sports field in town on occasion? If so I used to cycle past that countless times on my way home from school, dreaming of one day flying...
Si
check
16th Feb 2006, 16:35
Simon853
No, not guilty, it would have been early 70's as I went to Iran in '75.
Speechless Two.
You have opened a can of worms. Further checking I find a blank registration in my logbook. I seem to remember picking the helicopter up in Southampton, flying the eastern pipeline, returning it to Base and heading back north. Forgot to note the reg' and company went bust shortly after. I guess I was still in shock!!
Known registrations are G-ASLR, now parked,I believe outside the Harley Bar in Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, G-ATZX, went to HeliSwiss as HB-XAT, G-AYOE, G-AYOF, G-AYOG, and G-AZYB.