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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