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OT: One Talented BO-105 Pilot

There is something about the BO 105: it has a rigid rotor head.
So it can do all the stuff the Red Bull one does if you look at the Youtube side panel: loops, flips, rolls, and a few things that have no aerobatic description.
You'd wonder why they designed it so? It's mostly used as a Medevac...
 
yeah the rotor head is a major contributor, if i recall it uses the same principles as the rotor on the Westland Lynx... i'd love that ride!
 
hmm theres one of these as an air-ambulance at my local airfield......never seen it do that though...
 
Now I'm motivated to tweak mine so it will fly like that!! But seriously, the ground camera guys had to have been staked to the ground so they couldn't run, as nature would have intended, (depends too).
Also reminds me of a guy I knew who was a corpsman in Vietnam. Once a Cobra pilot took him up for "a ride". He flew like this guy and my friend lost his biscuits in less than two minutes.:cool:
 
It's nice, but I think it's a model.
Check at 43 seconds, the camera is above the chopper, and the fence pole is between of the camera and the heli.
Nice flying though:ernae:

And what about that German guy, absolutely fantastic.

R.
 
robcap said:
It's nice, but I think it's a model.
Check at 43 seconds, the camera is above the chopper, and the fence pole is between of the camera and the heli.
Nice flying though:ernae:

And what about that German guy, absolutely fantastic.

R.
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I am fairly sure that it is not a model this time....the Factory Pilot actually does put the 105 through quite a lot of "unbelievable stuff" on a regular basis and on occasion for "promotional purposes" he does it up a little better and get's it on film.

None of that is just hot-dogging though it is a very carefully scripted and rehearsed aerobatic routine....just flown around a different kind of pylons this time. The Discovery Channel had a hour long show on the man and the machine a while back.....not sure if that footage was in there or just very similar stuff.

The Bo-105 may well be mostly used by Rescue Forces around the world but it was designed with a Luftwaffe/Heer role in mind.

The Bo 105A made its maiden flight on the 16th February 1967 at Ottobrunn in Germany with Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm's test pilot, Wilfried von Engelhardt, at the controls.[1] The German Civil Aviation Authority certified the helicopter on 13 October 1970 and production for German civil and law enforcement organizations began shortly afterwards. Further safety certification by the FAA was granted in April 1972 with United States export orders following.


The Bo 105C was developed in 1972 and the German Ministry of Defence selected this model for its light observation helicopter program, purchasing 100 helicopters in 1977. A specialist anti-tank version armed with Euromissile HOT missiles and designated as the Bo 105PAH-1 was procured by the German Army around the same time, with a total of 212 eventually being delivered.


Sourced at Wikipedia
 
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