Personal Helicopter
Helicopter design pioneers like Arthur Young and Stanley Hiller long ago that helicopters would be used as commonly presented as cars for personal transport in the future. However, small and simple private aircraft helicopters gained importance then, as not only convenient, but also low maintenance costs required. A small propeller plane is much more popular than a small helicopter with complicated control mechanisms. Helicopternot only the high cost of maintenance, but high insurance costs as well.
Stanley Hiller, the biggest advocate of personal helicopters, built a prototype private helicopter with coaxial rotors, and also developed more conventional helicopters to reduce the cost of the helicopter for the individual citizen. Another aviation pioneer, Frank Robinson, technical staff of the Robinson R22 helicopter most popular. The R22 has a simple design with a pod-like cabin and a boom in the tailMounting an anti-conventional propeller torque and runs on a 124 hp Lycoming O-320-motor drives the two rotor blade. Although the R22 has an accident rate higher than average, was yet to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration as safe. There will be careful, in general, for light commercial work such as cattle, control, spraying and police observation of agriculture. But the R44 is the updated version of the R22, a larger engine, and is much more reliablethan the base model.
Just as planes helicopters can also be built from kits purchased with a person, the kit and then assemble the parties themselves, the cost of the helicopter significantly reduced. The most popular amateur built helicopters sold in the United States is still the B-8 Bensen autogyro. Some of the other trendy helicopters commonly built from a kit are American Sportscopter first ultralight helicopter Ultrasport 254, the Scorpion133 ROTORWAY andDragon Fly 333
Although there are many small helicopters built by various manufacturers in the United States, the helicopters are not able, with less light fixed-wing aircraft, not only easier to beat, but cheaper to maintain in order to compete.