The new Robinson R88!

[Head Turner]

Sorry Bellsux for my ignorance in regard to the chrome w/w and the bleed air is certainly another PLUS in this already advanced concept helicopter. However, the bleed air might work on a Citation but I doubt whether it would work on the R88. Just a question for everyone. Has bleed air ever been tried on a helicopter for clearing the windscreen?

[Nige321]

Mmmmm
Look what I just found here

[Fun Police]

it figgers someone would steal the idea!

[jetflite]

[jetflite]

people always taking credit for someone else's work.

[Capt Hollywood]

No fluffy dice I see, obviously a cheap knock off!

CH

[HELOFAN]

I assume that the original piston engine is really an APU.

I would like to order 7.

3 in flat black & 4 in in olive drab.

A few questions before the minister of defence cuts a cheque.

Will it have an outstanding safety record like the R22 & R44's?
We really dont want to buy a chunk o junk.

Can we get it in a 5 blade system ( I heard from your test pilots ...unofficial like .....that it vibrates like a mother erm... bad.

Can it be ordered with the Dillon gattling gun or do we have to fit it ourselves?... its for for hunting yknow.

Is there a large lift helo in the works 9 Mil 26 kinda lift? looking for erm... troop/tractor insertion here as well.

Pop out floats ... we are an island ... Der !

Delivery time?

Cheers

Narcotics ( defence ) trials division .....ahh... i mean the army guys.

HF

[helopat]

Originally Posted by PPRUNE FAN#1

The very interesting thing about that design is that every seat has a set of controls!

And a set of bicycle style pedals.

[OldRookie]

List please

Does anyone have a list of training schools who have ordered one of these wonderful creations. I would like to sign up for my IR course as the increased student capacity should mean I could complete the course for around £4,600.

Let me guess i can only do it in the U.S. and then have to convert to JAA and still get stuffed by the CAA.

[SASless]

Ah, not a problem.....the front seats are FAA/CAA/JAA/CASA/MOT approved but only when in IMC and IFR or SVFR with no visibility but clear of cloud.

Since most beginners are barely in control of the aircraft on instruments....the rear seat controls don't really connect to anything so only those pilots nearing completion of the IF course are allowed into the front seats.

The really interesting feature is the Instructor views the panel via sat link and is based in Las Vegas at the SSH main base.

SSH sees this aircraft as a solution to its inability to provide timely flight lessons to its students. Now that all seats are for students and the instructor is "out of the cockpit" and overseeing two or three aircraft....much progress can be made by each student.

[OldRookie]

Kyptonite

er you do realise that gaining international rating in one aircraft, in one course is blasphemy........................Think how many agencys would have to shed staff as the paperwork decreases............sorry must be the caffine wearing off........

[Head Turner]

I've just woken up from my summer snooze and thought that I was in a cemetry searching the tomb stones for a long lost relative. Then, flying overhead was a beautiful yellow (it was inspired in yellow and that is how it will always be, so no other colour is available) R88 with all the wonderful extras fitted and for sure in working order, performing a perfect orbit prior to landing. Being such a perfect invention, I was happy to see a fantastic 'lady' elegantly disembark and walk towards me. There then was an awful clattering from outside of my vision. The R88 in all it's glory faded from view, the 'lady' that was heading in my direction turned and disappeared and the whole sunny sky burst into a grey rainy sky and I reached over and killed the alarm clock.

The moral of this is that no one is to be allowed to display images of the R88 other in R88 yellow. OK....

Am I getting strange thoughts??? Or is this R88 thing still not as perfect as it ought to be?

My boss, the skinflint with the bulging pockets has been pretty quiet lately, but when I showed him the latest images he voiced an unprintable opinion.

[HELOFAN]

You still have a job then?



HF

[Capt Hollywood]

The evolution continues......

Weapons trials for HELOFAN's orders.

[topendtorque]

spinifex in the background there hollywood.

Wish i'd had that sort of armament when I shooting ,, quadripeds out there a few moons ago.

Hope you conducted the tests well away from the hairy armpitters

[Head Turner]

Capt H, things are getting pretty serious with the R88 and Agressive!! You have been busy flight testing and you must have loads of data to sift through. I'm sure the competion is watching your every move but could we not have some snippets of the performance achieved. Clean configuration, no guns, hoists, external stores booms, underslung load hooks and coffee cup holders.
Heard the other day that the test pilots generate quite a bit of heat in the cockpit as they are all making individual imputs contradicting each other. Can I suggest that you fit a heater and allow one pilot at a time to run through the test program.
A simple heater design would complement rotor warming with the exhausted cabin air being ducted up the rotor mast and out along the inside of the blade exiting the blade tip area along the trailing edge in a chrome housing. Please no naff carbonfibre thing, chrome it has to be says my boss, the skinflint with the bulging pockets.

[HELOFAN]

Maaate.

I love it.

Looks like home and perfect place for a skippy targeting practicing trials.

I miss Oz.

Good thing the R88 is twin turbine, this sucker is gonna be heavy with all the extra's.

HF

Thanks Capt Hollywood for catering to our needs.

I think I may need to upgrade our fleet depending on the trials.

I want to see more

HF

[HELOFAN]

SIlly question here....

Glass cockpit ?

HF

[Capt Hollywood]

Hope you conducted the tests well away from the hairy armpitters

And waste a perfectly good opportunity to assess the ability of the door gunner to compensate for moving targets! In these days of highly controlled test environments, we have to make the most of every opportunity

HELOFAN - There is indeed a glass cockpit but due to the classified nature of its design there are no images available for publication at this stage. The design incorporates 3D imaging on flexible (plastic) transparent LCD displays that are built into the cockpit windows. The benefit of this design is that rather than having to interpret what a radar display is telling you, whether it be weather or threats from enemy aircraft/weapons, it will be displayed on the windows in it's actual position. The interior of the windows will also use technology similar to the touchscreens used on PDA's. You will be able to 'touch' the target being displayed on the window and get information on it via aural advice in your headset/helmet.

CH

[Capt Hollywood]

First R88 aerial image!!.

Declassified image of the R88 during flight testing at the little known Robinson test facility behind Mt Tamborine, Queensland, Australia.