Displayed across the street from the Dom F. Pratt Museum in Fort Campbell, Kentucky

Mountain fire in Paarl South Africa. Chopper lost the bucket.

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I am looking for free helicopter database site which has both civilian, military helicopters (including all types of military helicopter ) and it has filter option for searching helicopters with wheeled landing gear and retractable wheeled landing gear and exclude helis. Com and wikipedia Tia

Japanese make great aircrafts

I always found interesting that games have real mechanisms of wheeled landing gear. Though I searched for videos of landing gear retraction it has no vidro showing retracting. But how gaming developers such a fine detail

Tries on youtube they have take off and landing videos. On that time the gear was open but I want to see how it retracts.Searched many times but found no luck

Bell 430 has hydraulically retractable landing gear, AW109 has retractable tricycle-type and so on. But how to indentify different types of wheeled landing gear mechanism by looking at it

Plan is to get an AS350 B2/B3 in the $1m-$2m range, heli ski with it 100 hrs a year in March and April, and put it on charter for the other 10 months.

What are the operating costs?

What are the modules and what is the timeline and cost for replacement of each? What are the other maintenance items?

What does a 100 hour cost? What about an annual? Of course it depends what you find, but what are some typical (and worst case that wouldn't be covered by insurance) scenarios?

What sort of unexpected costs might we run into?

ACC says maintenance and fuel is less than $1k/hr... OK sure for a new bird maybe that's true. But how about for a run out bird in need of a 12 year and a couple new modules in the next 200 hours? Surely that's gonna need more than $1k/hr going into the maintenance fund, yes?

What's the going rate for charter for a B3? $3500/hr?

How much is the charter company gonna take and what can we keep? How many hours could we realistically charter it out for?

Is anyone getting 500+ hours a year on one bird in a high demand market?

Are the heli charter companies typically owning their own fleets or is it common for them to do leaseback arrangements like with jet charter?

Is it correct to assume that even though jet charter people are willing to lose money on their charters and just want to offset costs a bit, heli owners are businesses and not rich people looking for a toy and therefore the heli charter rates actually make it possible to pay interest on a heli loan and cashflow the heli?

My grandson has been communicating with a local recruiter. He took the pretest (sorry I don't knoww all the acronym s)and did well. He really wants to enlist but the recruiter keeps saying no slots are open. Could that be true? I'm from a generation where if you walked into a recruiting office and were clean, you were on the next bus to Lackland. Is he being strung out by the recruiter? Should he go to another recruiting g office? Thanks for any input .

Is it possible for student at mechanical engineering to build gyrocopter ? For graduation project ?

Or alternatively could I go to Ukraine after the war and just pick up a crashed military helicopter, some how attach it to my car and drive back to my house Would I need a licence? Is it even legal? How much would it cost?

Howdy! I was outside doing some garden cleaning [im british] and Saw what appeared to be some sort of helicopter, It was like tactical / dark grey and was flying very fast. I dont know whether they were RAF / SAS / or just like private but it was some weird shit. I swear you cant fly below 1000 Feet in a residential area and this helicopter was definitely flying below 1000 and was flying VERY fast, I couldnt get a picture but it looked definitely military as it wasn't on any flight maps (Flightradar24, Radarbox, AirAssist, etc...)

All I want to know is whether;

A.) The helicopter was on like operations due to this recent stuff about the suspicious drones on news

B.) He's just patrolling

C.) Something bad's going down.