Your Favorite Heli

[southern canuck]

lightly loaded superlynx, amazing ship

 

[Elvis]

A self portrait?

 

Do You have a picture of the Lynx with all the "bells & whistles" on board?

[southern canuck]

yes a self portrait. sorry no full load shots, but here is an idea of what the panel looks like

 

[chopper_guy]

Any Bell medium. The best utility helicopter ever made, with nothing else on the horizon to replace it.

[rotorheadrob]

KNQ,

 

my first solo,

 

I was glad it had 3 hours of fuel because on the down wind I was tryin to remember how to land

 

 

Rob

[Hazy]

There you go Murdoch... The Bell 407 the Porsche in the sky!!!! :punk:

 

Is that because they both have sh!**@ back seats?

 

Prefer the 350B3, but choose the Lynx. Hazeus

[helicopterjim]

Doc1.doc

 

Has no one figured it out yet??

 

Well done damocles. Without this what would we have!

 

(but it still ain't a 214)

 

 

 

Time to climb to a height of 9 000 m : 15 min 05 sec

 

Date of flight: 29/04/1975

Pilot: Manuchehr KHOSROWDAD (Iran)

Course/place: Ahwaz (Iran)

 

Rotorcraft:

Bell 214A (1 Lycoming LTC4B-8D, 2 250 shp)

 

Time to climb to a height of 6 000 m : 5 min 14 sec

 

Date of flight: 29/04/1975

Pilot: Manuchehr KHOSROWDAD (Iran)

Course/place: Ahwaz (Iran)

 

Rotorcraft:

Bell 214A (1 Lycoming LTC4B-8D, 2 250 shp)

 

 

Time to climb to a height of 3 000 m : 1 min 58 sec

 

Date of flight: 29/04/1975

Pilot: Manuchehr KHOSROWDAD (Iran)

Course/place: Ahwaz (Iran)

 

Rotorcraft:

Bell 214A (1 Lycoming LTC4B-8D, 2 250 shp)

 

Altitude without payload : 9 071 m

 

Date of flight: 29/04/1975

Pilot: Manuchehr KHOSROWDAD (Iran)

Course/place: Ahwaz (Iran)

 

Rotorcraft:

Bell 214A (1 Lycoming LTC4B-8D, 2 250 shp)

 

 

 

 

None of these are absolute records but also none af the are with a 214B wich has an extra 300 or so horsepower. It does not make it the best helicopter but it is a helicopter that sure does a lot - whether you like it or not!!

 

PS I remember taking off from Chilliwack (34 feet) and climbing out to do a topping check on a 214. There was a cloud layer at about 12,000 feet and we had clearance from ATC to 15000 but only a small hole in the clouds. We took off and did a max climb to about 14,500 at which point we got the topping check numbers! then it was a max dive because the hole at 12,000 was closing up. When we got back on the ramp I reset the clock for shut down and noticed that the entire flight - 34 feet to 14,500 to 34 feet was less than 10 miutes. That's a helicopter!!

 

Cheers

JIM

[Heli-pilot]

AS365N3

[206Rookie]

I've ferried 206s, a 407, a 430 and a 412. The most fun was certainly the 407 while tree-top flying to Kingston!

 

But I'll be in a 205 next week...I'm guessing I'll have a new favorite.

[vortex]

Is that because they both have sh!**@ back seats?

back seats?? who ever rides back there anyway??

I'm flyin a 407 right now and gotta say..pretty cool machine.