It’s so nice to see a helicopter being flown like a helicopter actually flies - instead of these ridiculous “3D” models that are flown upside down and doing acrobatics that no human body or machine could ever do in real life. Much respect to this guy for building a beautiful model and flying it right.
Don't know how I missed this older video, but glad to see it. It is a beautiful helicopter and seems to fly quite nicely. A lot of work went into building that helicopter. Very well done.
I used to build and fly model helis, I still have 5 ready to go and one junk heli that needs parts (hard to find). I never did turbine, the most popular turbine engine at the time, I think, was the Wren 44 which cost around $5000 USD back in 2012 or 2013. I opted to stick with the electric which costs under $200 for a motor.
nice its not often you see 500E rc turbines on youtube with the proper main and tail rotor setup. mostly i see ones with 2 blade mains and tails when 5 blade mains and 4 blade tails looks more scale and probably flys more like a fullsize 500E.
Lovely helicopter. Looks beautiful in the air. Bit expensive but looks way better in the air then a drone. Believe that chopper can lift a lot too. Good job! :)
Absolutely fantastic helicopter. Congratulations!! Unfortunately we couldn't understand a single word when the pilot spoke at the end of the video. It would be interesting to know more about this fantastic little machiner!!!
This is so cool, but is so far out of my price range! I would love to build a nice BlackHawk, throughout the course of my R/C escapades, and use it for filming some cool R/C Adventures. Thumbs up!
@xjet Whuff..! That's a SERIOUS Heligocopter Fantasy ! It's good it has a Civilian paint-job.. My old boss at Helicopter Promotions, Rosemary Arnold-Harris, was aboard the first Civilian Turbine Chopper (Hughes 500) on it's First US Transcontinental Flight... She had happy memories of the H-500... We flew an Enstrom F-28c, so maybe she had Turbine-Envy ? Ciao.
I am currently building a 50 sized Century Mechanics, Hughes 500D Scale Helicopter. Nitro fuel....I would love to put a turbine in it......but my club won't allow them. It is an AWESOME hobby!!!!! ( but VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE)
Veeeery cool and turbine-powered, at that! Ought to be for the money, eh? {chuckle} A prime example of why I knoooow better than to get into such an "addiction" as r/c (I've too many irons in the fire as it is! LOL)! Always enjoyable vids, though, especially with the preflight prep and interviews. A nice way to enjoy my Sunday morning coffee! ;)
IMHO one of the sexiest Helicopters flying today , I'd like to know what gearbox your driving the shaft through or are you doing a turboprop style with the exhaust driving the rotor gearbox ?
@shooteraod This is a Vario Hughes 500E powered by a Jetcat PHT3. Research about vario and have a look at the other helicopters they have. This sort of model would cost upwards of $15000 with high quality equipment
Beautiful video, the helicopters scare me with those large blades. $20k for a model is a ton of money. I wonder about the range of this helicopter. I notice it is flown very close to the controller but that may have to do with all the jet models being flown at the same time and trying to stay away from their space.
20 grand? Damn... That's sports car territory. Plus, you can get actual ultralight aircraft for that that take a quarter of the time to build. Powered Paragliders cost half as much. Taking that into consideration makes me feel like that remote control helicopter isn't a great investment..
Part of the thrill you get when RC flying is from the fear that you might crash! Especially after you land it in one piece - you get a sensation as if you want to high five yourself!
I remember back in the 60,s I saw a bell Heli,in the window of the hobby shop,about that size,I thought that was pretty cool.For the time It was probaly pretty advanced for the time,I could be wrong.
The model shown at the beginning of the video has a deflector at the exhaust, whereas the one actually flown does not have the deflector. It looks to me as the second part of the video was older than the first part...
The MD 500 was developed from the Hughes 500, a civilian version of the US Army's OH-6A Cayuse/Loach. The series currently includes the MD 500E, MD 520N, and MD 530F. The MD 500E (369E) is the Executive version of the 500D with recontoured nose, Certified in 1982. The MD 530F (369F) Hot and high version of the 500E powered by an Allison 250-C30B rated at 650 shp (485 kW), certififed in 1985. The shapes are the same, the insides are different.
pardon me but thats the newer hughes 530 E my freind the nose being slightly pointed is the giveaway the 500 or OH 64 aka the killer egg had the solid round front this is the newer version and quite awesome i might add exellent work!!
So thats what I look like on video? Thanks for posting this. I didnt really get a chance to see the heli flying as I was too busy stiring the sticks! What a buzz to fly. Cheers to Colin (the owner) for building this project.... Skycrane next.....?
So awesome this thing probably cost as much as my truck so I don't imagine I'll be getting a jet helicopter anytime soon,that's sad too I want one just like this I recently learned how to fly 1 so I really want one bad now
"i was having a good day with the R/C club, at the airfield, then I took a chopper blade to the knee..." :-/ All kidding aside, pretty amazing- great design detail, loads of power, so fast... very impressive !
Its called counter rotation, the bolt can only get tighter under centrifugal force. How did you recongnise L/H threads without knowing why we use them?
hi i like watching this many times can iask is it a little tricky landing , it looks a little tippy , or is it the hughs has landing gear close together and high compaired to a 90 size heli ,but top marks many thanks
It’s so nice to see a helicopter being flown like a helicopter actually flies - instead of these ridiculous “3D” models that are flown upside down and doing acrobatics that no human body or machine could ever do in real life. Much respect to this guy for building a beautiful model and flying it right.
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Just gonna leave that there.
Impressive replica, great to see turbine powered model and full five blade rotor system on a model. Well done to the builder !!! and the RC pilot
Very impressive scale work. Without the people walking through the frame, you couldn't tell it was a model.
props for actually flying it around....most people just do some B.S. hovering with models this expensive.....BRAVO!!
Don't know how I missed this older video, but glad to see it. It is a beautiful helicopter and seems to fly quite nicely. A lot of work went into building that helicopter. Very well done.
Fantastic,what an awesome piece of engineering,superb flying skills,must be like trying to balance marble on point of a pencil.
A very little, little bird. Just Fantastic.
Beautiful work, and dedication. Attention to Detail is always important. Congratulations. How many of us can only Dream of such pleasures?
Well done.
Incluse details of Rivers, wonderful model RC, congratulations .
Rivets
I like how the heli waited politely for the plane to take off. A+ video... and by the way, that is one heck of a bird.
Major effort to bring to flight Iam sure, with few of us to give it a try...Many thanks enjoyed..
I used to build and fly model helis, I still have 5 ready to go and one junk heli that needs parts (hard to find). I never did turbine, the most popular turbine engine at the time, I think, was the Wren 44 which cost around $5000 USD back in 2012 or 2013. I opted to stick with the electric which costs under $200 for a motor.
nice its not often you see 500E rc turbines on youtube with the proper main and tail rotor setup. mostly i see ones with 2 blade mains and tails when 5 blade mains and 4 blade tails looks more scale and probably flys more like a fullsize 500E.
Lovely helicopter. Looks beautiful in the air. Bit expensive but looks way better in the air then a drone. Believe that chopper can lift a lot too. Good job! :)
maybe only 5 to 10 lbs
Absolutely fantastic helicopter. Congratulations!! Unfortunately we couldn't understand a single word when the pilot spoke at the end of the video. It would be interesting to know more about this fantastic little machiner!!!
excellent flight control and design
Those Hughes 500's just have a hell of a charming shape, don't they?
MORE THAN WORTHY of being Blown Up by AIRWOLF !!! It's Beautiful !!!!
Dude, you almost can get into this heli... Great job!!!!
This is so cool, but is so far out of my price range! I would love to build a nice BlackHawk, throughout the course of my R/C escapades, and use it for filming some cool R/C Adventures. Thumbs up!
Gn
that's amazing.......it looks so real and perfect
You need to put a camera in that baby. awesome flying and coptor.
@xjet
Whuff..! That's a SERIOUS Heligocopter Fantasy !
It's good it has a Civilian paint-job.. My old boss at Helicopter Promotions, Rosemary Arnold-Harris, was aboard the first Civilian Turbine Chopper (Hughes 500) on it's First US Transcontinental Flight... She had happy memories of the H-500... We flew an Enstrom F-28c, so maybe she had Turbine-Envy ?
Ciao.
A GoPro on it somewhere and you'd get the best bird eye view ever :) sooooooooo cool :) I want one :)
melvic4 you don't need to spend very much at all on an rc aircraft just to carry a gopro
Really nice video! You are a fantastic Pilot Enjoyed the flying! Marseilles, IL
Awesome,, just like the real thing but harder to fly no doubt !!!! Well done, I want one
the jet engine is not providing the thrust, it is only making the rotors turn, so the tilt of the blades IS actually what makes it move.
Luv the chopper's registration - 041OE
"Oh for one naughty" - LOL
bu helikopter muhteşem idare edenlerde çok güzel kumanda ediyorlar tebrikler
I am currently building a 50 sized Century Mechanics, Hughes 500D Scale Helicopter. Nitro fuel....I would love to put a turbine in it......but my club won't allow them. It is an AWESOME hobby!!!!! ( but VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE)
@happyhouse152 That's so fast and stables, i love this one.
awesome heli , nice build
It looks easy to fly.Maybe I'll get one.
Think I should get some experience before taking off?
Like I said, he made it look very easy!
Veeeery cool and turbine-powered, at that! Ought to be for the money, eh? {chuckle} A prime example of why I knoooow better than to get into such an "addiction" as r/c (I've too many irons in the fire as it is! LOL)! Always enjoyable vids, though, especially with the preflight prep and interviews. A nice way to enjoy my Sunday morning coffee! ;)
IMHO one of the sexiest Helicopters flying today , I'd like to know what gearbox your driving the shaft through or are you doing a turboprop style with the exhaust driving the rotor gearbox ?
RIP Brett.. You built and flew wonderful helicopters
THAT RITE THERE WAS SOME AWESOME FLYING! ONE NICE BIRD!
@shooteraod
This is a Vario Hughes 500E powered by a Jetcat PHT3.
Research about vario and have a look at the other helicopters they have.
This sort of model would cost upwards of $15000 with high quality equipment
Beautiful video, the helicopters scare me with those large blades. $20k for a model is a ton of money. I wonder about the range of this helicopter. I notice it is flown very close to the controller but that may have to do with all the jet models being flown at the same time and trying to stay away from their space.
Looks and sounds awesome
looks stunning...!
You should mount the camera inside and take us for a ride on that thing
20 grand? Damn... That's sports car territory. Plus, you can get actual ultralight aircraft for that that take a quarter of the time to build. Powered Paragliders cost half as much. Taking that into consideration makes me feel like that remote control helicopter isn't a great investment..
Wonderful! Theodore "T.C" Calvin would definitely approve.
Part of the thrill you get when RC flying is from the fear that you might crash! Especially after you land it in one piece - you get a sensation as if you want to high five yourself!
Without fail every time. 8 years later I hope like I, you still get that feeling. Blue skies
Awesome Heli
Great flight
Obviously I'd love to have one, for now my Trex 600E in a AS 350 fuselage will do.
Congrats !
manjunk427 is right!
Epic to see this one flying.
So many vids are of "warm-ups" and "servo test" etc...
Needs the Magnum theme tune on this video. There was one of these in that show : )
Good lord! all that equipment, where does the pilot sit.
That thing is beautiful!
Very cool. Do you have to use a 3-axis gyro on that since it's flybarless? Or is the 5 blades enough that you can just use a tail gyro?
wow the filming style hasn't changed a bit :D
I remember back in the 60,s I saw a bell Heli,in the window of the hobby shop,about that size,I thought that was pretty cool.For the time It was probaly pretty advanced for the time,I could be wrong.
looks amazing
It's wonderfull
Did you buy it or built it?
The model shown at the beginning of the video has a deflector at the exhaust, whereas the one actually flown does not have the deflector.
It looks to me as the second part of the video was older than the first part...
hi mate great heli and flying,what turbine are you using in it,regards john
It's just a RC helicopter, Chill. Those are around since the 80ties...
@ Xjet Nice model and nice video!
The MD 500 was developed from the Hughes 500, a civilian version of the US Army's OH-6A Cayuse/Loach. The series currently includes the MD 500E, MD 520N, and MD 530F. The MD 500E (369E) is the Executive version of the 500D with recontoured nose, Certified in 1982. The MD 530F (369F) Hot and high version of the 500E powered by an Allison 250-C30B rated at 650 shp (485 kW), certififed in 1985. The shapes are the same, the insides are different.
Wow that's an amazing ,well done......
Would really love to build a 50 scale "Huey UH- 1D Iriqois".... fully detailed....YEESSSSS!!!
pardon me but thats the newer hughes 530 E my freind the nose being slightly pointed is the giveaway the 500 or OH 64 aka the killer egg had the solid round front this is the newer version and quite awesome i might add exellent work!!
@johnken62 Depends on how realistic you want it to look and many other things like radio gear and flybar controller. Could be between $13000-20000NZD
So thats what I look like on video? Thanks for posting this. I didnt really get a chance to see the heli flying as I was too busy stiring the sticks! What a buzz to fly. Cheers to Colin (the owner) for building this project.... Skycrane next.....?
So cool. If you sharpened the rotors, could you trim my hedge please?
Tokoroa? LOL that ain't too far from my neck o' the woods =^.^=
Nice heli, by the way.
only fools would condem such a creativity, period.
My favorite helicopter .awesome
Very impressive.
That thing does fly nice.
So awesome this thing probably cost as much as my truck so I don't imagine I'll be getting a jet helicopter anytime soon,that's sad too I want one just like this I recently learned how to fly 1 so I really want one bad now
Nice Helicopter!
What a Sweet Bonza little machine!
Who the hell would click the thumbs down button??
That is pretty neat!
tres belle maquette!
Love it!!! Look like its real!
hastasıyım bu makinelerin... :)
Hey Bret nice flying
Lindissimo helicoptero, Parabéns pelo bom gosto..!!!!!
Beautiful
maybe its just me.. no offence. i feel that the "tail rotor" is too small. well, by the looks of it. :P great vid by the way
Very Nice WORK!!
拝見いたしました、ラジコンとは思えない程の飛行感激いたしました、この動力機構は電動モータでしょうか、エンジンでしょうか、素晴らしい作品でした。
Hello this is a beautiful Heli... What size is it ? and which turbine did you used ?
Thanks
"i was having a good day with the R/C club, at the airfield, then I took a chopper blade to the knee..." :-/ All kidding aside, pretty amazing- great design detail, loads of power, so fast... very impressive !
Wow that is cool
And Golf Buddy that is mean WOW THAT COPTER IS AWESOME I WANT ONE!!!!!!
that is a sweet model!
Its called counter rotation, the bolt can only get tighter under centrifugal force.
How did you recongnise L/H threads without knowing why we use them?
very nice , thanks
Hello, Very nice set-up. I take it the Huges 500E is the fuselage. What heli and electronic's are on the inside. Mike
It looks wonderfully. I used to fly in Hughes 500s in the '80s. What is the payload of this machine
I wish I were that hamster lol that would be awesome. I've flown in a civilian helo and its like a magic carpet ride.
hi i like watching this many times can iask is it a little tricky landing , it looks a little tippy , or is it the hughs has landing gear close together and high compaired to a 90 size heli ,but top marks many thanks
That Helicopter is Humongous. Do you Own that helicopter.
It looks like flying a brick !!! The pilot seems to be having difficulties flying it ?
Little Bird - Like a BOSS!
do you have pics on facebook love it !! where was the video filmed may i ask im guessing aus
Nice helicopter..I like this
why do all rc helicopters land with the tail towards them but not the nose and takeoffs too
Boy, you could do a gross cartons of eggs with that beater! Nice!
Nice job