Please have a look at a link my mate sent me...I got a little scared
www.vietnam-chopper.com
Cheers
WLM

I'd rather get in a gyro-copter

AND believe me that is saying something

In my business the Chinese are always copying machines from photos & broshures - they are usually cr@p and dangerous as well!

What's the difference between;



and



Isn't there a video somewhere of Igor coming a cropper in this?

?

At least matey boy in the vietnam pic has a flying helmet and a smile!

Er, about 80 years! Things have moved on slightly since Igor had a crack at it...




Nope. You're probably thinking of a video of the Bell test program where the chap (also, confusingly, wearing a fedora!) is thrown into the rotordisc...


Anyway, if you were to develop a helicopter in Vietnam, surely there are still plenty of old Bell components lying around in the jungle that one could re-use...

The difference is that the lower Helicopter is built by a household name in the field of rotary aviation and the first one has just been built in a field.

And here it is, thanks...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDn8Ak4kz8

Mmmm........ Really!




etc....

http://www.aia.org.nz/R22Incident.htm

http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/search_re....cfm&x=17&y=19

Come on chaps, did you never built your own go-kart out of pram wheels, wooden boxes from behind the local supermarket, a coach bolt, some nails and some rope??

I say, 'go for it lads, your chopper looks rubbery'!

Now, now, Sid. Are we talking about people crashing R22s or are we talking about elementary helicopter design, eh?

It's not like you to quote out of context...

Silsoe

Whilst not trying to turn this into an R22 bashing thread, coz I still like them.
However I'll see your 295 and raise you 636.

http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk...asp?ACType=R22

Cheers

V

I have seen at least one movie of Igor wrecking his prototype. Can't find it on youtube though.

-- IFMU

Well;
Aerodynamics aside; it's built more sturdy than Eurocopter.

VeeAny,
In the words of Dick Emery...



"ooh… you are awful… but I like you!"

B73,

Is there a difference?


Given these blokes, their love of helicopters (when they aren't shooting at them!) and their circumstances, I say it's just another example of human inginuety....go for it!

Here's Igor'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PyZoMYeb24