1/32 Revell EC-135 T1

Heeresflieger- German Army

by Julian Schüngel

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In September 2000, the German Army Air Corps received this new training helicopter.

It's an EC-135 T1 and the German Army Air Corps School clocks up 30000 flight hours in December 2006 on that aircraft.

With the "Fly-Out" of the Alouette II the training is based on this type.  The school has also a high-tech "Simulator Center" with 8 EC-135 simulators, 4 simulators for Bell UH-1D & CH-53 (modular) and a second building for NH-90 simulators.

The EC-135 has two engines in each case 650 PS, and can fly 2 hrs and 45 min with a cruise speed of 250 km/h.

The fuel consumption lies by 220 liters per hour.  The EC-135 is equipped with high-technology within engine controlling (FADEC, etc.), navigation instruments and autopilot.  This helicopter is always flown by 2 pilots and has a glass cockpit. This modern cockpit was chosen to simplify the switch (of the pilots) to newer, and more complex helicopters like Tiger and NH-90.

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Bückeburg is located south of Hannover in Lower Saxony, nice area.  Bückeburg has a helicopter museum, unique in the world (I think Chicago DC has something like that too, Smithsonian Institute). There you can find the whole history of direct lift aircraft.

Honorary members of the "Hubschrauber-Zentrum e.V." were Prof. Dr. Henrich Focke & pilot Hanna Reitsch, and also Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorsky.

Every year there's a international helicopter forum in Bückeburg, the first helicopter world championship was flown here in September 1971.

http://www.hubschraubermuseum.de/hubmus_/index.jsp?bsLangCode=EN

 

The Model

It was a Revell kit (not produced anymore).  The problem was, that it was the type of aircraft that was handed over at the beginning, the newer versions have air-cleaners and some other additional parts.

In the summer of 2006 I went to Bückeburg for 2 days, it was very interesting to see all those choppers, not only from Germany..... but I " hab den Vogel ja nun jeden Tag in live "in der Hand" und fast keine Unterschiede gefunden" wrote a pilot aspirant on a German forum... well it means " I've the bird now every day "in my hands" and I nearly found no differences", a very nice praise.

"Docendo Discimus" means "Learning by teaching", a good slogan.

Yes, and the first-aid-kit symbol on the left side is missing.... who cares :-)

Julian  (aka Medevac71)

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Photos and text © by Julian Schüngel