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Robinson R44 Raven II at an air show, 2007. The R44 is a single-engined helicopter with a semi-rigid two-bladed main rotor, a two-bladed tail rotor and a skid landing gear. It has an enclosed cabin with two rows of side-by-side seating for a pilot and three passengers.
[1] [2] Robinson helicopter celebrated 50 years in business in June 2023. [3] Plans for production of the Robinson R66 were announced in March 2007. It is a five-seat helicopter of similar configuration to the R44, but with the addition of a luggage compartment, wider cabin by 8 in (20 cm), and powered by a Rolls-Royce RR300 gas turbine engine.
Flight Radar 24, a global flight tracker, shows a Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter that left Quonset State Airport at 8:14 a.m. heading southwest and apparently going down in the area of Worden ...
The R44 Raven II, a successor of the Robinson R22. Robinson resigned from Hughes in 1973 and founded the Robinson Helicopter Company (RHC). [3] RHC’s first business address was Robinson’s home, where the two-seat R22 helicopter was designed. The first R22 prototype was built in a hangar at the Torrance Airport, and Robinson personally flew ...
Three people were killed in a helicopter crash in southwest Louisiana Friday night, according to officials. The Robinson R44 crashed on a rural street in Iowa, Louisiana around 9 p.m. local time ...
Piñera piloted his Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter, with registration CC-PHP, across the lake from his residence. [8] After lunch, as the return flight began, the helicopter lost control just a few meters from the shore, making contact with the surface of the water and capsizing into Lake Ranco in the Ilihue sector near the take-off site.
The helicopter involved in the accident was a Robinson R44 II, with registration ZS-SBM. [3] The helicopter was previously involved in a minor accident on 1 August 2015, that resulted in the left skid collapsing. The cause of that accident was the result of a student performing an autorotation landing with decaying rotor RPM. [4] [5]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...