Around the world in ultralight helicopter
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Around the world in ultralight helicopter
Does anyone here know anything more about this Frenchman that is flying around the world in a ultralight helicopter. Looks like an CH7 Angel to me.
He left Iceland today for Greenland.
He left Iceland today for Greenland.
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From: england
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Yep,
He's called Matthieu, he's based in Barcelonetta in the French Alps, and here's an extract from an email his friend sent me yesterday:
"Matthieu is gone last sunday aboard his Kompress Charlie for a trip to the United States.
He is going to show his helicopter at the international exhibition of motorized flight in Oshkosh from july 26.
Today and tomorrow he is crossing Greenland.
I saved your message so that he can reply to you when he returns to France.
Good flights and good championship,
Elodie"
I flew with him in the CH7 a couple of years ago when I was at the World CHampionships.
He's a great pilot and it's a great machine.
Big Ls.
He's called Matthieu, he's based in Barcelonetta in the French Alps, and here's an extract from an email his friend sent me yesterday:
"Matthieu is gone last sunday aboard his Kompress Charlie for a trip to the United States.
He is going to show his helicopter at the international exhibition of motorized flight in Oshkosh from july 26.
Today and tomorrow he is crossing Greenland.
I saved your message so that he can reply to you when he returns to France.
Good flights and good championship,
Elodie"
I flew with him in the CH7 a couple of years ago when I was at the World CHampionships.
He's a great pilot and it's a great machine.
Big Ls.
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From: Belgium
Hello Big LS,
Maybe he will meet one of our customers who is doing the same trip with a R44 Clipper II. He will go to Oshkosh first and afterwards proceed to LA where he will meet Frank Robinson. Yesterday he arrived in the West of Greenland and I suppose he will be crossing to Alaska today
Maybe he will meet one of our customers who is doing the same trip with a R44 Clipper II. He will go to Oshkosh first and afterwards proceed to LA where he will meet Frank Robinson. Yesterday he arrived in the West of Greenland and I suppose he will be crossing to Alaska today
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Ok so he´s probably not going around the world then. Some misunderstanding there.
Looks like a really nice helicopter. Hope he will have a good trip. He might as well just goahead and continue ´round the globe since the worst of the trip is over after he gets to Canada.
Looks like a really nice helicopter. Hope he will have a good trip. He might as well just goahead and continue ´round the globe since the worst of the trip is over after he gets to Canada.
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From: UK
France to Canada(ish) is not round the world, possibly a fifth of the way round I suppose. Don't get me wrong - this is no mean feat (especially between Scotland and Iceland 
It's like the yanks calling it the world series in Baseball
It's like the yanks calling it the world series in Baseball
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From: Great South East, tired and retired
You want a hero, look at Dick Smith and his solo flights to the North Pole and around the world, all back in the 80s. Before the days of GPS, too.
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From: Heefordshire
CH7 Kompress arrives in Oshkosh from France
Matthieu has arrived in Oshkosh after an epic trip from the French Alps. You can see his route at the following link. He would like anyone to contact him who has experience of flying through Russia, as that is the way he would like to fly back!
http://www.kompress.fr (section pilots)
http://www.kompress.fr (section pilots)
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From Airventure.org, on his arrival at Oshkosh:
Frenchman Crosses the Atlantic in a Homebuilt Helicopter
Frenchman Crosses the Atlantic in a Homebuilt Helicopter
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French pilot goes home after helicopter breaks down in Russian Far East
RIA Novosti August 30
French pilot Matthieu de Quillacq, who set off for a transatlantic trip in his lightweight helicopter in mid-July but made an emergency landing in the Russian Far East on August 3, has flown to Moscow on a passenger aircraft.
Quillacq was fined 3,000 rubles ($100) for violating the Russian border after he landed in an unpopulated area in the Chukotka Peninsula. He had already visited Britain, the United States, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, and planned to return to Europe via Russia.
Quillacq was taken to Chukotka's administrative center, Anadyr, but his HeliSport CH-7 Kompress helicopter was left behind.
"I have been trying to solve the issue of having my helicopter repaired and resuming my trip. But unfortunately, I have had no success because I don't have permission for flying over Russian territory," Quillacq told RIA Novosti.
"I can't stay in Chukotka any more either because I don't have permission to stay in a border area," he said.
"Now I have to go home from Anadyr aboard a passenger plane and leave my helicopter behind in the tundra," he added.
RIA Novosti August 30
French pilot Matthieu de Quillacq, who set off for a transatlantic trip in his lightweight helicopter in mid-July but made an emergency landing in the Russian Far East on August 3, has flown to Moscow on a passenger aircraft.
Quillacq was fined 3,000 rubles ($100) for violating the Russian border after he landed in an unpopulated area in the Chukotka Peninsula. He had already visited Britain, the United States, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, and planned to return to Europe via Russia.
Quillacq was taken to Chukotka's administrative center, Anadyr, but his HeliSport CH-7 Kompress helicopter was left behind.
"I have been trying to solve the issue of having my helicopter repaired and resuming my trip. But unfortunately, I have had no success because I don't have permission for flying over Russian territory," Quillacq told RIA Novosti.
"I can't stay in Chukotka any more either because I don't have permission to stay in a border area," he said.
"Now I have to go home from Anadyr aboard a passenger plane and leave my helicopter behind in the tundra," he added.
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isn't it strutted because it's not a cone ?
BTW, I've checked the FMs for both R22 and S300 and both tailbooms are stated to be of monocoque construction ("cone" by your parlance ?).
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I wasn't nit picking....
As I understood it the S300 has a tubular tail boom...whereas the R22 has conical (cone) boom
A conical boom is stronger than a tubular boom..therefore the R22 doesn't need struts, but the S300 and CH-7 do....
Shoot me down if I've got it wrong though
As I understood it the S300 has a tubular tail boom...whereas the R22 has conical (cone) boom
A conical boom is stronger than a tubular boom..therefore the R22 doesn't need struts, but the S300 and CH-7 do....
Shoot me down if I've got it wrong though