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Remember
Good Helicopters (even kits) Aren't Cheep.
More Important,
Cheep Helicopters Aren't Safe
and Can/HAVE KILLED

Before Buying Anything,
I strongly suggest you personally observe the designer and or manufacture (not just the company's test pilots) flying there product at altitude many many times before you invest your money n possibly your life...
If  the designer or manufacture comes up with ANY excuse why they don't fly there craft, the writing is on the wall, move on to another manufacture that has the confidence in there craft to regularly fly it.

I have personally seen the manufactures that fly there craft n I have also seen the ones that don't fly there craft, statistically one is LOTS less likely to kill than the other.

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I have noticed that I often get a big laugh when I refer to one of
                  the more renowned kit helicopter manufactures as
"the helicopter hitler".
   Now I can't mention his name, but I just thought some of  U might know who this name fits
              and perhaps U 2 might get a good belly laugh after learning what
others are refer to him as.

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Homer Bell's
Helicopter Fly In
Hillsboro Ohio
Friday, Saturday n Sunday
July 16, 17 n 18
call
513-932-65oo
home
or
937-364-2o47
farm
4 Info n Directions

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Rotor Way Press Release
On there new
SuperCharger

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John Rahn's Rotor Way Progress

Thanks for your reply.  I emailed the indian helicopter company and asked how many had been
built or were flying.  The silence was deafening.  (big surprise).

A suggestion for your website -- how about a section for "dream schemes"; i.e. those selling plans without even so much as a prototype, or those that are just a ripoff (like the G-1).

Don Lane

I am looking for someone who has built or flown a rotor mounted jet helicopter.  I am in the process of building one, and could use some insight.
mdkchk@middletown-mo.net

180-Degree Turn - A sometimes difficult maneuver to perform; the degree of difficulty is usually determined by the size of the pilot's ego.

A & P Rating - Enables you to fly grocery supplies.

Aero - That portion of the atmosphere that lies over Great Britain.

Aerodrome - British word for airport.  Exactly what you'd expect from a country that gives its airplanes names like Gypsy Moth, Slingsby Dart,  and Fairey Battle Bomber.

Aileron - A hinged control surface on the wing that scares the hell out of airline passengers when it moves.

Airfoils - Swords used for dueling in flight. Often used to settle disputes between crew members and passengers.

Airplane - The infernal machine invented by two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio and perfected on the sands of the Outer Banks of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Precursor of the Frisbee.

Airspeed -
1. The speed of an airplane through the air.
2. True airspeed plus 20% when talking with other pilots. Deduct 25% when listening to an
    Air Force Pilot.
3. Measured in furlongs-per-fortnight in student aircraft.

Air Traffic Control Center - A drafty, ill-kept, barn-like structure in which people congregate for dubious reasons.

Alternate Airport - The airport that no aircraft has sufficient fuel to proceed to if necessary.

Bail Out - Dipping the water out of the cabin after a heavy rainstorm.

Barrel Roll - Unloading the beer for a hangar party.

Caging the Gyro - Not too difficult with domestic species.

Carburetor Ice - Phrase used when reporting a forced landing caused by running out of fuel.

Cessna 310 - More than the sum of two Cessna 150's.

Chart -
1. Large piece of paper, useful for protecting cockpit surfaces from food and beverage stains. 2. An aeronautical map that provides interesting patterns for the manufacturers of children's curtains.

Chock -
1. Sudden and usually unpleasant surprise suffered by Mexican pilots.

2. Piece of wood the line boy slips in front of wheel while pilot is not looking.

Cockpit -
1. A confined space in which two chickens fight each other, especially when they can't find the
    airport in a rainstorm.
2. Area in which the pilot sits while attempting to figure out where he is.

Collision - Unplanned contact between one aircraft and another. As a rule, collisions that result in the creation of several smaller and less airworthy aircraft from the original two are thought to be the most serious.

De-icer - De person dat puts de ice on de wing.

Dive - Pilots' lounge or airport café.

Engine Failure - A condition that occurs when all fuel tanks become filled with air.

Exceptional Flying Ability - Has equal number of takeoffs and landings.

Fast - Describes the speed of any high-performance aircraft. Lower - performance and training aircraft are described as "half-fast."

Final Approach -
1. Many a seasoned pilot's last landing.
2. Many a student pilot's first landing.

Flashlight - Tubular metal container kept in flight bag for storing dead batteries.

Flight Instructor - Individual of dubious reputation, paid vast sums of money to impart knowledge of questionable value and cast serious doubt on the coordination, intelligence, and ancestry of student pilots.

Flight Plan - Scheme to get away from home to go flying.

Glider - Formerly "airplane," prior to running out of fuel.

Gross Weight -
1. A 350-pound pilot (also see "Split S").
2. Maximum permissible takeoff weight plus two suitcases, 10 cans of oil, four sleeping bags, four rifles, eight cases of beer, and the groceries.

Hangar - Home for anything that flies, mostly birds.

Heated Air Mass - Usually found near hangar, flight lounge, airport cafe, or attractive, non-flying members of the opposite sex.

Jet-assisted Takeoff - A rapid-takeoff procedure used by a general aviation pilot who suddenly finds himself taking off on a runway directly in front of a departing 747.

Junkers 52 - A collection of elderly airplanes that even the FAA can't make airworthy.

Lazy 8 -
1. Well-known fly-in resort ranch.
2. The airport operator, his four mechanics, and three lineboys.

Log - A small rectangular notebook used by pilots to record lies.

Motor - A word used by Englishmen and student pilots when referring to an aircraft engine. (also see "Aerodrome").

Navigation - The process by which a pilot finds his way from point A to point B while actually trying to get to point C.

Occupied - An airline term for lavatory.

Oshkosh - A town in Wisconsin that is the site of the annual Experimental Aircraft Association fly-in. It is believed to have been named after the sound that most experimental aircraft engines make.

Pilot - A poor, misguided soul who talks about women when he's flying and flying when he's with a woman.

Pitch - The story you give your wife about needing an airplane to use in your business.

Radar - An extremely realistic type of video game, often found at airports. Players try to send small game-pieces, called "blips," from one side of the screen to the other without colliding with each other. Player with the fewest collisions wins.

Roger - The most popular name in radio.

S-turn - Course flown by student pilot from point A to point B.

Short-field Takeoff - A takeoff from any field less than 10,000 feet long.

Split S - What happens to the pants of overweight pilots (also see "Gross Weight").

Trim Tab -
1. A device that can fly an airplane better than the pilot.
2. Popular diet beverage for fat pilots (also see "Gross Weight").

Useful Load - Volumetric capacity of the aircraft, without regard to cargo weight.

Wilco - Roger's brother, the nerd.

Wing strut - Peculiar, ritualistic walk performed by student pilots upon getting out of low-winged trainers following first flight performed without instructor yelling at them. Usually results in instructor yelling at them.

Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills.

Rule one: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane. Forget all that stuff about thrust and drag, lift and gravity; an airplane flies because of money.

It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.

An airplane will probably fly a little bit over gross but it sure won't fly without fuel.

Think ahead of your airplane. I'd rather be lucky than good.

The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat.

If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn 'em back off.

A check ride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.

Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has ever collided with the sky.

Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.

Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.

Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone.

An airplane flies because of a principle discovered by Bernoulli, not Marconi.

Pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.

If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger, if you pull the stick back they get smaller.

Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.

The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man....Landing is the first!

Every one already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great landing.' It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.

The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.

IFR: I Follow Roads.

You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.

I had a fighter pilot's breakfast - two aspirin, a cup of coffee and a puke.

Those who hoot with the owls by night, should not fly with the eagles by day.

A smooth touchdown in a simulator is about as exciting as kissing your sister.

A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion.

Helicopters can't really fly - they're just so ugly that the earth immediately repels them!

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

Things which do you no good in aviation:

Altitude above you.
Runway behind you.
Fuel in the truck
Half a second ago.
Approach plates in the car.
The airspeed you don't have.
A field-grade navigator

If God meant man to fly, He'd have given him more money.

What's the difference between God and pilots? God doesn't think he's a pilot.

Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.

Flying is the perfect vocation for a man who wants to feel like a boy,  but not for one who still is.

There are four ways to fly: the right way, the wrong way, the company way and the captain's way. Only one counts.

A good simulator check ride is like successful surgery on a cadaver.

Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a fireplug what it thinks about dogs.

Trust your captain .... but keep your seat belt securely fastened.

An airplane may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.

Any pilot who relies on a terminal forecast can be sold the Brooklyn Bridge.

Could someone please help answer the following questions regarding the AW/95 style chain drive and the Rotorway Exec PRODRIVE belt modification drive systems.

I would like to hear from any one familiar with use of the single chain drive, in particular its performance, reliability, its life expectancy, wear characteristics and adjustment intervals for re-tensioning and the cleanliness of the chain, e.g. does it tend to flick off much of its lubrication and has anyone had any experience using the single chain on engines of 85 to 100 horsepower ?

Next is the cog belt system for the Rotorway Exec, can someone please tell me the width, tooth pitch, and length of the belt.

Also the reduction ratio of the drive system e.g. how many teeth on the small and large cog pulleys ? Has anyone experimented with either the Gates Polychain or the Dayco Panther cog belt drive systems for use on the helicopter main rotor shaft drive ?

Please reply to    Attn. Adam

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Coaxial Helicopter
by
Eagle's Perch Inc.

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Homer Bell's
Helicopter Fly In
Hillsboro Ohio
Friday, Saturday n Sunday
July 16, 17 n 18
call
513-932-65oo
or
937-364-2o47
4 info

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White Dove Aviation, Inc.
had been awarded the first
UltraSport
dealership in the United States.

White Dove has both the 2 place 496 and the single place 331 at our facility.

White Dove offers a complete on site builder assist program
which including room and meals.

White Dove will shortly be offering flight training for the 496.

Interested parties can contact:

White Dove Aviation, Inc.
Orv Neisingh
8844 Co. Rd. 9790
West Plains, MO 65775
417-255-2201
osn@townsqr.com

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Today's Flight with n Angel

Today, June 1st, 1999
Sergio Rodriguez,
a Argentine Police Helicopter Pilot,
Augusto Cicare's (the designer of the above helicopter) friend, neighbor n test pilot
flew Miss Nina (his first stick time in the Angel) over the beautiful Pennsylvania country side.
Sergio's first comment was that the CH-7 Angel autos so much better/easyer than
the R22 he gives instruction in back in Argentina.
Nonetheless, we BOTH had a GREAT time spinning her wings today n ifin time
permits we both may do it again tomorrow (I haven't flown her since Feb. last).
I hope to have time to make a page with a few more fotos of Sergio's flight.

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A Few
Good Helicopter n Aviation
...Related Books...
You may like to read
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Chicken Hawk is a story of a young boy that goes thru US Army  Warrant Officer Flight School becoming both a helicopter pilot and a man. The story starts in the late 60 in the USA, than onto VietNamand back. The author Bob Mason tells how he almost washed out of pre flight school but was allowed to take the "Hell Month" over again (6o days of Hell Month) and  almost a year later earned his wing as a Warrant Officer. He tells how he and many other set up one of the first Air Cavalry Divisions (perhaps the first, I can't remember). Any way, I  enjoyed Bob's book so much I have actually read 3 times so far and most likely will again. It is a great book for any one fascinated with the whirling wing/helicopter and or VietNam helicopter aviation. If you are forgetful like me, you can enjoy it 3 times for only $8.76 thru Amazon.com.

Almost every one knows Chuck Yeager was the first human to break the sound barrier. But the story that leads up to him being in the right place at the right time and having "the Right Stuff" is equally as interesting as his mach 1 story. If I remember correctly (I read this one a few years back n only once) this book also starts out when Chuck was a young man on a farm, following him thru Army flight school, a W.W.II P51 pilot in Europe and back to Murrock/Eedwards AF Base, retiring a Air Force Brig. General....... Great human aviation story, great W.W.II story and great aviation history story all rapped up in one book for just 6 bucks thru Amazon.com.

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You may have seen the movie or perhaps the segment on 6o minuets or 2o/2o type TV show recently. What a story that starts with a grope of young soccer players on a twin engine turbo prop plane flying thru the Andes in Chili South America and does not make it. I do not want to give it a way, but is is a great story and just keeps on coming and coming as you turn the page. Once again, I read this one a few years ago and with my memory, I will take it with me on my next long airline flight and read/enjoy it all over. Alive is also a bargain at $5.59 thru Amazon.com.