Red Bull B0-105
Having had the sheer pleasure of flying BO' and BK's.....and the occasion to be left alone to my temptations.....I could never bring myself to roll or loop them.....I always chickened out first.
Far too many years of flying Bell Products I suppose.
Sikorsky 53's and 97's used to do those maneuvers and some have been on video.
A Bristow 58T went inverted coming off a Platform one night (based upon the Cabin Attendant's comment about walking on the overhead)...and the Pilot not knowing the actual attitude of the aircraft....but the Pitch Change Link knuckles on the Swash Plate gave evidence to the Jury to confirm something interesting happened.
Far too many years of flying Bell Products I suppose.
Sikorsky 53's and 97's used to do those maneuvers and some have been on video.
A Bristow 58T went inverted coming off a Platform one night (based upon the Cabin Attendant's comment about walking on the overhead)...and the Pilot not knowing the actual attitude of the aircraft....but the Pitch Change Link knuckles on the Swash Plate gave evidence to the Jury to confirm something interesting happened.
The head was titanium, the mast steel.
My question is on the fuel system.
I cannot see how the standard system would work in any prolonged negative G or inverted flight.
My question is on the fuel system.
I cannot see how the standard system would work in any prolonged negative G or inverted flight.
Last edited by ericferret; 1st Jul 2022 at 22:09.
You can be inverted, briefly, without negative g and he doesn't fly it along upside down like a fixed wing could.
Someone asked a question earlier in the thread about why he rolls left - ISTR the Germans lost a few 105s early on because, like the Lynx, there is a pronounced pitch/roll couple to the right.
This is noticeable when performing back flips and loops and can be demonstrated in a steep turn to the right. Opposite cyclic is needed to stop it rolling further.
I suspect therefore that he does the rolls to the left to give the best control margin for recovery.
On the other hand it may be to reduce the twisting loads on the tail boom/TR.
This is noticeable when performing back flips and loops and can be demonstrated in a steep turn to the right. Opposite cyclic is needed to stop it rolling further.
I suspect therefore that he does the rolls to the left to give the best control margin for recovery.
On the other hand it may be to reduce the twisting loads on the tail boom/TR.
I cannot see how the standard system would work in any prolonged negative G or inverted flight.
I asked Rainer how he does his very tight rolls - not the barrel rolls - without loosing altitude, well he does, he is flying kind of an arc and is falling down. There is the zero g. The upside down pedal turn would also be zero g or low negative g (actually wouldn't that be high, since it is negative). And it never lasts for very long, since you can not have negative pitch.
If I remember right, somebody told me, could have been Rainer Wilke, that there are two small feeder tanks close to the engine which solve that problem.
I asked Rainer how he does his very tight rolls - not the barrel rolls - without loosing altitude, well he does, he is flying kind of an arc and is falling down. There is the zero g. The upside down pedal turn would also be zero g or low negative g (actually wouldn't that be high, since it is negative). And it never lasts for very long, since you can not have negative pitch.
I asked Rainer how he does his very tight rolls - not the barrel rolls - without loosing altitude, well he does, he is flying kind of an arc and is falling down. There is the zero g. The upside down pedal turn would also be zero g or low negative g (actually wouldn't that be high, since it is negative). And it never lasts for very long, since you can not have negative pitch.
Booster pumps are mounted on the tank floor.
Seems to me that the standard system would be prone to sucking air if the aircraft enterred zero G.
I recollect that minimum pitch on the 105 is 4 degrees 15 min. Interesting effects if you rig it to less!!!!
I have looked at one of the many displays on YT, and I'm not convinced there is any negative g. Being upside down doesn't mean you have to be zero or negative. Apart from early FW Aerobatics, I spent some time in 2001 with the Eurocopter Flight Test Dept pilots looking at the EC155, and a couple of manouevres they demonstrated, and I subsequently flew, were a) slow down to less than 40 KIAS in level flight, then roll inverted and pull through, and b) bunt 90 degrees nose down, then roll 180 degrees and pull through. Neither was anything less than positive g throughout, although short periods of less than 1 g.
Agreed 212 man
I’ve been out of touch on this sort of detail, but US military helos test specs for the structural demonstration series of maneuvers always included demo to -0.5 G*. ( and no, I don’t know how the Bell guys accomplished this data point with a teetering rotor,, but God bless ‘em, they must have found a way )
For the US Army UTTAS competition the Boeing and Sikorsky competitors had an additional maneuver requirement added, which in part required holding 0.0 G for two seconds.
*As measured at the aircraft center of gravity, thus the cockpit Nz would be lower ( due to the pitch rate ) esp. in larger machines.
For the US Army UTTAS competition the Boeing and Sikorsky competitors had an additional maneuver requirement added, which in part required holding 0.0 G for two seconds.
*As measured at the aircraft center of gravity, thus the cockpit Nz would be lower ( due to the pitch rate ) esp. in larger machines.
In the 105 the feeder tank that can be one or two compartment is located under the passenger cabin floor.
Booster pumps are mounted on the tank floor.
Seems to me that the standard system would be prone to sucking air if the aircraft enterred zero G.
I recollect that minimum pitch on the 105 is 4 degrees 15 min. Interesting effects if you rig it to less!!!!
Booster pumps are mounted on the tank floor.
Seems to me that the standard system would be prone to sucking air if the aircraft enterred zero G.
I recollect that minimum pitch on the 105 is 4 degrees 15 min. Interesting effects if you rig it to less!!!!
Just push the cyclic stick slightly forward. The same is valid for Reiner Wilkes nice rolls.
Negative G on the Bo105 will cause the engine oil pressure to go to zero immediately. From my memory the MGB was not affected like this.
The feeder tank is always full as long as there is fuel in the main tank, with the surplus from the transfer fuel pumps flow poring back into the main tank. There is no time limit for the negative G for fuel purpose but the total time on the minus side will nit be long.
Was Charly Zimmerman the start of the BO-105 aerobatic flying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zy3OqXMPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSQ_-SB0gVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zy3OqXMPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSQ_-SB0gVQ
SAS, I think the origination started with Siegfried Hoffman, a test pilot at MBB. By 1982 at the Hanover airshow, world aerobatic ( helicopters ) champion Hauptman Karl Zimmerman* was doing the most impressive and choreographed aerobatic displays in the BO-105. Had the pleasure of watching him daily, and then giving he, his spouse and children a ride in our UH-60A, chaperoned by Sergei Sikorsky. Siegfried Hoffman was also there,with his new BK-117 ( with SAS, no less ) and was invited to trade rides with him. ( having done a flight evaluation of the BO-105 in the days prior to the UTTAS fly-off, the BK was certainly a step forward, not to take anything away from the maneuver capability of the 105 in the right hands ).
*Karl told us that back in his anti-tank helicopter unit he practiced the aerobatics daily, and his show certainly reflected that resulting excellence.
*Karl told us that back in his anti-tank helicopter unit he practiced the aerobatics daily, and his show certainly reflected that resulting excellence.
I have looked at one of the many displays on YT, and I'm not convinced there is any negative g. Being upside down doesn't mean you have to be zero or negative. Apart from early FW Aerobatics, I spent some time in 2001 with the Eurocopter Flight Test Dept pilots looking at the EC155, and a couple of manouevres they demonstrated, and I subsequently flew, were a) slow down to less than 40 KIAS in level flight, then roll inverted and pull through, and b) bunt 90 degrees nose down, then roll 180 degrees and pull through. Neither was anything less than positive g throughout, although short periods of less than 1 g.
However, here is a clip with pilot Rainer Wilke where (very occasionally) the wig of his passenger flies up under negative G (check 6:15 min)
Excuse my ignorance, but are all BO-105 helicopters capable of doing the kind of aerobatics that you can see the Red Bull B0-105 doing on the uTube videos?
Obviously the pilot is highly skilled and you wouldn't catch me doing anything like that anytime soon.
I have only flown Robbies and clearly you would kill yourself even trying the things the pilot does in these videos, it looks like a masterpiece of engineering in the hands of a very skilled pilot to me.
I thought perhaps there is some special modification done to the machine.
Are there any other types capable of such manouvers?
Obviously the pilot is highly skilled and you wouldn't catch me doing anything like that anytime soon.
I have only flown Robbies and clearly you would kill yourself even trying the things the pilot does in these videos, it looks like a masterpiece of engineering in the hands of a very skilled pilot to me.
I thought perhaps there is some special modification done to the machine.
Are there any other types capable of such manouvers?
His mention of Bob Hoover......
Just push the cyclic stick slightly forward
You can get a slight reduction from purely forward cyclic but for negative you need a zoom climb followed by a bunt - ie lower the lever a bit as you push the cyclic forward.
Most engines and gearboxes can cope with that for short periods.
So as we probably all know, Chick talks a good fight but didn't invent the manoeuvres, teach himself them nor modify the aircraft in the ways he clamed.
Not saying he is a bad pilot just a self-promoter.
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No you need a lot more than that for negative g.
For the negative G part, if you have speed just push the stick forward. And before you do it, secure any loose object and clean the floor from things otherways will hit the roof.
The standard in the handheld GPS times was surplus batteries put in some opening in the frame caming loose and flying around in the cockpit before they first stuck in the roof and then fell down to the floor when getting positive G again.
Originally Posted by [email protected]
Most engines and gearboxes can cope with that for short periods.
Originally Posted by [email protected]
So as we probably all know, Chick talks a good fight but didn't invent the manoeuvres, teach himself them nor modify the aircraft in the ways he clamed.
Not saying he is a bad pilot just a self-promoter.
Not saying he is a bad pilot just a self-promoter.
Some of the talking about very advanced modification (” changing the CoG”) involved moving the battery to the position that I think most military BO105 already had.
Originally Posted by [email protected]
So as we probably all know, Chick talks a good fight but didn't invent the manoeuvres, teach himself them nor modify the aircraft in the ways he clamed.
Not saying he is a bad pilot just a self-promoter.
Not saying he is a bad pilot just a self-promoter.
Is there any news about the alleged tail rotor failure which led to the restart of this thread after 4 years?
Every helicopter has it's weakest point and the T/R on this model and the 117 has it's issues along with it's mounting points and mechanisms.
The head is the least of your problems as it is basically the same used right up to the H145D2 except the internals are a bit heavier, thats all.