What is your dream Helicopter
 

What helicopter do you hope to fly some day?

I:
Aircrane
HH-65 Dauphin
Comanche
S-76

As a student pilot I'd have to say for the moment I'd love to get a go of a Huey. I know, I'm an ass. But someday it'd have to be an S-61. Someday.

AW139, without a doubt. Beautiful machine.

I'd love to have a go flying a Chinook - it's such a big, noisy, lumbering beastie and I love 'em. So, if there's anyone out there who could help me out with that, you'd earn my undying gratitude (and maybe a few pints!)

Cheers

Whirls

I'd love to fly a Rotorway, especially if they ever make a turbine. Would be cool to own one and take a girl on a date in it.

Patrick

Whirls,

Once again you prove to all and sundry what "good taste" is all about. Never mind the slingloads....go for "the" real helicopter.

Surely someone at Odi can make that happen....so long as you leave the Banjo and Go-Go boots at home.

Where I used to live, next to the Kennet & Avon canal just out Thatcham, I could sit in my garden and watch the Chinooks flying overhead.

Nearby was a large expanse of wasteland over which much of the training took place I'm sure. I have sat there and waved up at them and, a couple of times, I've had a landing flashed back at me!

So if there's any of you guys out there who can remember a a demented woman waving at you on the banks of the canal, it were I!

Cheers

Whirls

Its got to be the Apache!!

If any of you out there know of an apache pilot in oregon who wants to make a dream come true please point him/her in my direction.

PS there will be lots of beer waitng for him/her when we land!!

R22

The 407 is a great looking machine. Also the posts of BigMikes 427 looked awesome too!

Super Stallion - In a Class by Itself
 

The Sikorsky Super Stallion It flies just like one would expect a 13,000 hp. helicopter to fly. It is surprisingly agile for a big old girl and really fast. :ok:

I have always liked the bell 222 not because of airwolf . The metropolitan (london) police used to have one back in the nineties you could always here it coming

S-76 forever.
 

with out doubt the S-76 would be it.

i love women but im pretty sure that helo gave me my first woody at a young age. :E

any 76 drivers out there. get on here and give me a quick comment on it. :ok:

any one that does not like em. dont spoil the dream. :oh:

MH-68A "Stingray" http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0290849/L/
I like the look of it almost as much as scorched titanium on exhaust pipes. :8 :8
Plus there's usually a badass with a sniper rifle sat in the back of the cab:suspect: :suspect: :suspect: :suspect:

High cool factor
 

I'd like to fly the Sikorsky-Schweizer X2. Hover, 250 kts, hover. I bet it even autos.http://www.sikorsky.com/Images/SAC_S...r_Aircraft.jpg

-- IFMU

Crikey - a pervert! Flown 'em for nearly ten years and the rotors STILL go round the wrong way.

Now, give me back my all-time favourite, the S-70 Blackhawk with the 701-C engines; nearly 1900 SHP each - now we are talking proper helicopters.

shy torque.

i said dont spoil it.

have you got anything good to say about em?

bp

I learned to fly in an enstrom. After getting my rating, I managed to get about 4 hours of time in a couple of S76's. First couple in an A model, the second couple in a B. To a junior birdman like me, it was awesome. Fast, powerful. I got to rack it over in 60 degree bank turns. I got to do wingovers (rotor-overs?). I got to shoot power recovery autos. I got to fly with SAS off, which was pretty challenging at full gallop. With SAS on, it was a dream to fly. And, since I had a grownup along every time, I didn't have to be smart about the systems. It's a great machine.
-- IFMU

Yes, a well equipped S-76 is probably still the best IFR to VFR machine on the market today, which is extremely good considering how long in the tooth they now are.

We do a lot with ours that other operators can't.

:ok: thanks guys.

that was good to hear.

IFMU. i had heard they were challenging to fly at full speed with out SAS. which is im guessing is the auto pilot. correct me if im wrong.
im hoping to get a crack at them in the next couple of years as a coey.

...as in teen-dream? Well, I'm flying one of them - the EC120 - sleek and sexy, even all these years later. The other is the MD530F or 500E, either one is still the 427 Camaro of the helicopter world. In third is the RAH-66 Comanche, with the AH-1 Cobra right on its heels. Finally, for sheer lumbering force combined with a strange beauty, it's the Ericson Aircrane (not to mention now I can bring all my toys with me).

Now all I need is a big hangar and a lifetime supply of Jet-A. :cool: