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    Know Your Helicopters
    Know Your Helicopters
    Know Your Helicopters
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    Know Your Helicopters

    By Thomas Hargreave

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    Know Your Helicopters is a pocket-sized book detailing 44 types of helicopters most commonly seen in service today from the smallest Robinson to the biggest Mil, including Bells, Boeings, Sikorskys and many more. A photograph of each machine is included.Tom Hargreave served 18 years in the British Army as an Army Air Corps pilot. In this time he accumulated 2,500 hours of flight time across a variety of helicopter types including the Gazelle, Lynx, Agusta 109 and the Apache.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOld Pond Books
    Release dateJan 20, 2017
    ISBN9781912158065
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      Know Your Helicopters - Thomas Hargreave

      Know Your Helicopters

      Thomas Hargreave

      Contents

      Title Page

      Introduction

      Acknowledgements

      Glossary

      A129 Mangusta

      AW119 Koala

      AW101 (EH101)

      Eurocopter Tiger

      Cobra AH-1/AH-1W/AH-1Z

      AW169

      CH-47 Chinook

      Rooivalk CSH2

      KMAX series

      SH-2 Seasprite

      KA50/52 Hokum

      KA-27 Helix

      BK-117

      Mi-28 Havoc

      Mi-26

      X3 (EC155)

      AW609 TiltRotor

      Sikorsky S-300

      Westland WS-61 Sea King series

      MBB BO105

      SA330 Puma

      UH1 Iroquois series

      AW139

      EC(H)145

      Dauphin

      MD900 series

      Gazelle SA 340–342

      A109 series

      EC135/H135

      AS355 series ‘Squirrel’

      V-22 Osprey

      Jet Ranger 206/306B

      Bell 212 Twin Huey

      Apache AH-64D

      S-64 series

      Hughes/MD500 series

      Mi-24, 25 and 35 series

      Mi8

      Robinson R22

      CH53/CH53E/MH53 – Jolly Green Giant

      Sikorsky UH60 series

      Sikorsky S76 series

      Lynx Mk 7

      SE3130 Alouette II

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      Introduction

      Like any right thinking person I was always fascinated by helicopters – these unlikely-looking machines that can move in any direction and even hover whilst thumping the air into submission. There was also the mystique which surrounded the pilots and the apparently Zen-like skill required to coax one of these machines off the ground. I would later learn there was no ‘Zen’, just long hours of training and concentration required. I also learnt that coaxing the thing back onto the ground mattered a great deal more than getting it off the ground. Flying one of these machines was always beyond my life’s ambitions until I joined the Territorial Army as a 16-year-old soldier. Whilst sweating my way up a hill on Otterburn Training Area, pondering the wisdom of my choice to be a soldier, I noticed a Gazelle helicopter parked on a small knoll on the side of the impossibly steep hill I was trying to climb, its canopy glinting in the sunshine. More importantly, beside this splendid machine, reclined in the grass, sunglasses on, apparently snoozing were two Army Air Corps pilots. I think this sort of event is referred to as a light bulb moment! Years later, I found myself in a Gazelle hovering solo for the first time; this remains the most memorable and extraordinary moment in my career. I have been lucky enough to fly some amazing machines since and have been involved in significant military events but I can assure you that the freedom of taking off and sitting in a 5 foot hover remains the most magical part of flying.

      The prompt for writing this book came to me whilst leafing through some essential reading, ‘Know Your Tractors’ and it occurred to me that there was a gap in the ‘Know Your’ series that I was well-placed to fill. I have selected helicopters which are all still very much in service and ones you are likely to see around the world rather than historic machines. If you think some are missing, do please let me know.

      I hope that this book informs you and possibly inspires you

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