The new Robinson R88!
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Hollywood......this is all very interesting but......the people want to see a modern rotorhead.......how about an ec120 design? Sales would be going trough the roof!!!!
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Apologies to Robbo Jock but public demand has resulted in the conversion to a modern rotor system.
Announcing the R88 - Mk VII.
Announcing the R88 - Mk VII.
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Thanks to a new Euroamerican trade agreement we now have the ability to splice a set of 214B main rotor blades onto an EC120 head, don't ask me how it's done it's vewy, vewy technical!
Here is the Mk VIII
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Here is the Mk VIII
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Hollywood,
As I am over here in the States right now I sent a copy to the FAA (Chicago Field Office) to see if they would issue a type certificate for it but unfortunately they rejected it due to the lack of a horizontal stabilisation system. To get some points back you might have to include some sort of syncronised elevator system as well, but dont worry if you can't because it was too hard for Agusta and that's why they took it off the Power and the Grand models.
As I am over here in the States right now I sent a copy to the FAA (Chicago Field Office) to see if they would issue a type certificate for it but unfortunately they rejected it due to the lack of a horizontal stabilisation system. To get some points back you might have to include some sort of syncronised elevator system as well, but dont worry if you can't because it was too hard for Agusta and that's why they took it off the Power and the Grand models.
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Hey you forgot the belly hook, without which, all the ol time pilots cannot be inserted, complete with fishing boat to their remote lake and retirement home.
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Ok now lets get rid of the semi-rigid system and go for a multi-blade system...I'm thinking 8 blades....perhaps borrow off the MI26.
Perhaps a 42-degree gearbox on the fenestron to keep it up away from the weeds as well
And it wouldn't hurt to make it a convertible either
Perhaps a 42-degree gearbox on the fenestron to keep it up away from the weeds as well
And it wouldn't hurt to make it a convertible either
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Bellsux - The FAA should now accept the Mk IX which has a horizontal stabiliser. A cargo hook is now also available with the Mk IX.
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And now the EMS version with rescue hoist - The R88 Mk X.
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