What do you think of the customised colour scheme?
 

The first AW139 to South Africa has been delivered to a South African businessman after a 6388 nm flight from Milan to Cape Town.

The eight day ferry included stops in Crete, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.


The customised colour scheme was designed for the customer by a South African artist and applied to the aircraft by an airbrush artist, also from South Africa, at AgustaWestland's Vergiate factory.

Very Good ................ hope he's got plenty of spare parts and a good "queer trades" engineer on hand !!!.....

:E :eek:

Don't forget the spare exhausts, how long are they lasting now, 12hrs? Oh and some spare screens, they're lasting a little longer before they crack! Some hyd px relief valves, before they leak, some batteries as those ones will just about power your wife's rabbit for 2 mins........
You could of course have taken all this with you, but oh no, after you've put your fag papers in that cavernous boot you'll have bust the weight limit! That's if you haven't already exceeded your rather dubious payload.
Now I'm sure it's going to be a great machine and I may be being a little naive here, but wouldn't you expect this sort of stuff to be sorted before AW started flogging 'em?!

ZS-EOS in Milan
 

http://www.dgualdo.it/zseos.htm

I have some images about ZS-EOS departure from Milan Malpensa ...
it looks great !!!
Regards from Italy
Damiano
:ok: :ok: :ok: :ok:

That is a seriously good looking helo!

Where are these being made? Or put another way: which components are sourced from Yeovil?

Mart

You can't be serious!
 

I think its one of the worst paint schemes I have ever seen.
What a waste of what is probably a good looking helicopter (underneath).
Yuck! I'd rather fly a Robbie

OOW

I'm with outofwhack

Look's like it was parked next to Neasden Train Depot and some hoodies had a pop at it.

Nice machine. Terrible paint scheme.

Mistaken Identity
 

The helicopter bought by David Mostert is not the one in the picture. It actually is a AW 109 Grand registration ZS HMD.
As far as I know the one pictured was bought by a mining company in SA.
Regards

Cyclic

Thanks for the correction. :ok:

I've edited the post.


Heliport

Yes, I think you'll find it belongs to Harry Oppenheimer, of DeBeers. Onbviously wanted some more space and grunt than his 155 gave:(

Anyone over 40-something will remember customised paintwork the first time round.

Looks like it's moved up market from the original .........


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...-hippy-bus.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...hippiebus2.jpg

FL,

Alas, the only WoodStock I remember is this one.....

http://www.surplusrifle.com/m14m1a/graphics/full.jpg

So much for my experience with "free love".

The AW139 replaces this EC155 with the same owner:-

http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB2/files/877f_258.jpg


http://www.controller.com/images/con...e/01238107.jpg

Living proof that money can't buy taste!! :)

Aw c'mon AlanM, that owner's got a lot of taste. it's just that it's bad!

Cheers

Whirls

Well I quite like it. Mind you, I have been known to wear BEIGE shoes, so what do I know....... :rolleyes:

color scheme
 

Hey guys be positive :D
At least is a change from ugly military color scheme.
And still better than PHI, CHC, Bristow . . .
:ok:

Hey, if I could afford my own helicopter (or better yet, persuade someone else to buy me one), I wouldn't be worried about what people thought about my choice of colour scheme :}

(I think I'll paint my R22 lumo pink...)

Reminds me of the fellow who was criticised for the colour scheme on his Spitfire.

"Oh, and what colour is your Spitfire" was his reply :p

Sounds like somebody has been left flying the poor old 76 at North Denes :hmm:
Exhausts on those machines have lasted a bit longer than 12 hours, and the new type of windscreen is lasting well elsewhere without cracking, so should be OK in Tbag land as well. Hyd Pressure switches (Not relief valves. Duhhh!!) were replaced on a Service Bulletin for affected aircraft, just as any responsible manufacturer would do. Batteries are just fine. You just need to get out of your 40 year old aircraft habits, and modify the way you do things. Old dog, new tricks. I know I know.
For an 'A' model, it is doing quite well. Anybody recall the 'A' model 76?? :rolleyes:
Oh yeah, how are the crack checks in your 76 pedals?? oh, and those PBA's and Yaw Actuators that keep flogging out. You'd have thought they'd have fixed those by now wouldn't you??
Perhaps before you slag off a new machine, that is still going through development at the factory (as all new machines do), you would be better spending your energy on sorting out the older, supposedly fully developed machines, that still have recurring problems with them.
Sounds like an acute case of Green Eyed Monsta!! :E :E :E