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What a beautiful helicopter. Saw this Bell 222 (or it might be a 230?) at Rand Airport today. The 4-blade rotor is however new to me, I wonder if it improves lift here in the thin Highveld air? It is amazing to think that this design was first introduced already in 1976..
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Re: Airwolf
Hi there,
Pine, that is a Bell 430, same design as the 230 but with the obvious 4 bladed rotor! Beautifull aircraft, not many come close to the look of this chopper!
My favourite is the Bell 212, "Huey" as they called it! I think there is one at Rand as well, my buddy went for a flip in it!
Cheers
Pine, that is a Bell 430, same design as the 230 but with the obvious 4 bladed rotor! Beautifull aircraft, not many come close to the look of this chopper!
My favourite is the Bell 212, "Huey" as they called it! I think there is one at Rand as well, my buddy went for a flip in it!
Cheers
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Thanks for the correction! (I don't know helicopters very well )
A second-hand 430 will set you back US $3,495,000 http://www.controller.com/listings/airc ... 144066.htm "
I found this on Wiki on the original Airwolf..
A second-hand 430 will set you back US $3,495,000 http://www.controller.com/listings/airc ... 144066.htm "
I found this on Wiki on the original Airwolf..
The flying Airwolf helicopter was actually a Bell 222, sometimes unofficially called a Bell 222A, whose serial number was 47085. During filming of the series, the helicopter was owned by Peter J. McKernan Sr.'s JetCopters Inc. of Van Nuys, CA. The helicopter was eventually sold after the show ended and became an ambulance helicopter in Germany, where it crashed and was destroyed in a thunderstorm on June 6, 1992. All three crew members died.
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saw a web page a few years ago about a guy that bought a 212 and made his own airwolf to hang in his museum. looked very cool. maybe jaco/buggyfan still have a link to it?
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Unfortunately the helicopter museum went through a difficult time and the airwolf display got e'bay'd
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next time u in cape town you can take in a trip around the peninsula in a genuine huey. theres one here that offers tours in themtheqs wrote:Hi there,
Pine, that is a Bell 430, same design as the 230 but with the obvious 4 bladed rotor! Beautifull aircraft, not many come close to the look of this chopper!
My favourite is the Bell 212, "Huey" as they called it! I think there is one at Rand as well, my buddy went for a flip in it!
Cheers
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Yes Farhaad, I wanted to do that for my birthday couple of years ago, think it was R20k or something silly for that trip ? Could be thinking about the flip in the jet, but it was some ridiculous amount...
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who still remembers this !airwolf's visit to south africa in the 80',early 90'
turned out this was a local copy and not the genuine ladyYou do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
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I do I do I do! Circa 1984? I saw it at Cresta Centre, but the lack of missles and machine guns plus the Checkers stickers spoiled the momentbuggyfan wrote:who still remembers this !airwolf's visit to south africa in the 80',early 90'turned out this was a local copy and not the genuine lady
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i went to centurian cricket ground to see it!
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That helicopter,last I heard was owned by Eskom,all the big boys would use that to fly to business meetings instead of driving,it had the little eskom emblems on it aswel. And that yellow Huey at the airport is quite something,its been involved in every thing from adverts to fighting Building Highjackers in Joberg and the regular transporting of gold to and from the refinery.I see it almost everyday.
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