Bell Model 407AH

RavenOne

RavenOne

ACCESS: Top Secret
Joined
18 June 2008
Messages
863
Reaction score
1,957
The fruits of my annual pilgrimage to Heli Expo brought me back to Orlando last week and to see the Bell 407AH gunship unveiled albeit a price of $5.5m USD.

P3070578.jpg


P3070591.jpg


P3070594.jpg


P3080929.jpg


P3070566.jpg
 
Bell 407 AH (Armed Helicopter) promotional video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwbmwe-vMaU


AVWeb report on Bell 407 AH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2axIdCIfs
 
I will tell you a small secret. it is very hard to impress russkies with small helicopters, as they even don`t consider choppers without wheels to be choppers of serious matter. Well mannered companies try to build with retractable landing gears, that is a nice technology etiquette, as to using bars, it is the same as using drum brakes, they work, but don`t impress. Solid engineering lies in details, and solid engineering is usually a unique design, not a modified body of late 70ies or 80ies. Not impressed, sorry to sound sour grapes here... Does anyone know is US working on any serious size helicopters that would have landing gears?( well, besides x2` scale demonstartor`).
 
ADVANCEDBOY said:
I will tell you a small secret. it is very hard to impress russkies with small helicopters, as they even don`t consider choppers without wheels to be choppers of serious matter. Well mannered companies try to build with retractable landing gears, that is a nice technology etiquette, as to using bars, it is the same as using drum brakes, they work, but don`t impress. Solid engineering lies in details, and solid engineering is usually a unique design, not a modified body of late 70ies or 80ies. Not impressed, sorry to sound sour grapes here... Does anyone know is US working on any serious size helicopters that would have landing gears?( well, besides x2` scale demonstartor`).
Click to expand...

look up bell 430 an the black hawk
 
Bell 407 AH

http://youtu.be/yxcqZfYZ_eg

http://youtu.be/SW2axIdCIfs

Source:
http://www.aviationnews.eu/2011/06/20/bell-helicopters-407gx-and-407ah-make-international-debut/bell-407ah/
http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckPostId=Blog:2f16318d-d960-4e49-bc9f-86f1805f2c7fPost:24ce14f6-128a-4911-a8b6-0b3a61aedbe9
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/HELICOPTER-BELL-407AH-ATTACK-HELICOPTER-BROCHURE-AERIAL-MUSCLE-B1-/160867682676
 

Attachments

  • Bell-407AH.jpg
    Bell-407AH.jpg
    175.5 KB · Views: 117
  • 0c75c2ac-6314-4350-a2a5-ec862c52cc58.Full.jpg
    0c75c2ac-6314-4350-a2a5-ec862c52cc58.Full.jpg
    206.1 KB · Views: 111
  • ab516885-89b9-4b38-b916-f80f1142a139.Full.jpg
    ab516885-89b9-4b38-b916-f80f1142a139.Full.jpg
    186.2 KB · Views: 99
  • EN_407AH_FactSheet_Page_1.jpg
    EN_407AH_FactSheet_Page_1.jpg
    131.9 KB · Views: 91
  • EN_407AH_FactSheet_Page_2.jpg
    EN_407AH_FactSheet_Page_2.jpg
    244.9 KB · Views: 88

Similar threads

Back
Top Bottom