Mosquito XET Turbine. Private Helicopter For Less Than $50,000
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2018
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3 years ago I covered this ultralight helicopter at a drone expo. Unfortunately, I didn’t give a proper view of the Mosquito helicopter so in this video I am doing a more in-depth review and first impression of the aircraft.
Mosquito Helicopter is an ultralight single seat helicopter produced by Composite FX down in Florida. This aircraft is an ultralight and is in the experimental category. Meaning you can build one yourself after buying your kit and engine.
You do have different options with engine choices and avionics. The Mosquito helicopter can be fitted with a piston engine or a turbine engine. Typical cost for piston engine models are right around $50,000 finished. For a turbine engine you’re looking at double the price mainly because of the price of the turbine engine. The specific model showcased in this video is the XET model which is fitted with a 95HP turbine engine. The helicopter will climb at 1200 feet per minute and can cruise at 80 miles per hour.
This is a sweet little ride for the fun and adventures pilot. Training is required to operate your helicopter. For more details you can reach out to Composite FX.
Music:
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Instrument/Cockpit flow of the Mosquito XET Turbine video ua-cam.com/video/kda6dpSX0jY/v-deo.html
Are these an everyday driver? Or flyer I should say?
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Helo
Mike thank you for the nice comprehensive and I like that you said that that you didn't finish the vid, please explain the nav as you would fly. Dziękuję
too cool ! I like it
Yeah I'd definitely decapitate myself first day owning it
Kevin Busher For sure wouldn’t make it past noon.
Yep I would catch the blade in no time 😂
put taller legs on that machine!
I decapitated my wife and all my children the first day I got it. on the plus side I can spend a lot more time with the helicopter.
A single seat helicopter and you would decapitate yourself? TF would anyone be doing OUTSIDE of the cockpit of an operating helicopter? The rotors would literally never be in operation without you sitting in the cockpit. 😂
The blades look conveniently around head chopping height. 👍
Well typically you don’t fly a helicopter while standing on the ground next to it, so unless you are worried about your giraffe being able to fly it, it’s long way from head chopping height. Would have to be pretty retarded for that to be an issue, probably should keep your special helmet on and stay out of the cockpit.
@@ryanschaff123 what if it is landing and suddenly loses it balance? It's not easy to see if there is someone around the chopper.
That's a good thing if your GF is trying to stop you from leaving
@@ryanschaff123 Did you not see the guy crouching around the chopper while it was starting up?
You can never trust anyone
I'd use that to go back and forth to work and avoid traffic.
This is the new Uber helicopter. I'll carry passengers in a large pet kennel tied under it.
That could be problematic, depending on where your workplace is located. Some cities actively oppose landing helicopters within city limits except at official heliports and one's employer would also need to be agreeable to allowing VTOL aircraft kicking up sand and dust in their company parking lot.
@@Milosz_Ostrow yeah i understand that part but hes got spirit though id rather use it for airsoft just add 2 wings using Tagging rounds to fire grenades along with couple miniguns prob could do it all under 5k be well worth it
Placement of the master switch next to leg. Brilliant
convenient place for screw ups
Helicopters with main props that are head-height are a real dangerous game friendo
Anyone dumb enough to try to fly their helicopter from outside of it while standing on the ground is too stupid to have a head on their shoulders in the first place and rightfully should have it removed.
@DIEU ET MAÎTRE annoying af
No shit imagine if it smacked ya upside the freakin' HEAD!?
@@mattk.2756 looks like it needs to be attached to a GPU for starting (i.e. ground power unit; in this case just a cart with a couple big batteries). It's not a hazard for the pilot, but it's an immense hazard for the ground crew.
Great video, i really like the idea of one of these for my exploring videos!
Great videos mike ive been subscribed for almost a year and i am amazed on how much there is to learn about aviation. Every time i watch a video it motivates me even more to learn how to fly. Thank you again and keep making videos they’re great.
As usual, you have done a great job of reporting the facts in your videos. I truly enjoy watching them. I currently do not fly anymore getting too old. I do enjoy watching all of the Videos that you make and produce. They keep me informed and in touch with the flying community. Thank's
Mike, you do some good videos man. I enjoy the way you present them and the Plus and Minus of the aircrafts you review. Keep em coming man.
Nice job. I was at the factory working on my Mosquito, and watched you film this.
Wow, I remember watching a video quite a few years back about a guy (I want to say in Indiana) that was building these small 1-2 seater helicopters and was looking for funding to mass produce them. He wanted to sell his for around 26k so the average American income could afford it (his words, not mine). He eventually shut down and I thought I would never see another small personal use helicopter again but these folks have proved me wrong. Thanks for getting this coverage out there.
Can u post that video link for that guy if u find it
I actually check the number of subscribers hoping it's bigger everytime, I am puzzled why it's not a 100k by now but I really hope it grows really big. Love your content bro! Big up from South Africa.
Thanks for your services to educate us, and the ways you presented this machine, you could be an excellent salesman. Blessing brother and keep going.
as usual well done. and congrats on getting the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo plug.
Thank you!
Okay Mike............. I am in love with this one!
Still drooling over the two seat Mosquito!
Thanks for the referral!
Great video Mike, that's the stuff i love to see more of.
Cruising speed: 80mph
Flight time: 1-2 hours
Cruising altitude: uhh...18 inches?🤷🏻♂️
Please apprise Us all of your personal Helicopter and or any Aircraft design/production.
@@HighSpeedNoDrag Pretty sure he was just saying some of us expected a little bit of a climb. :)
Haha he must be 241 pounds!
@@klhmia Perhaps...….
Most women would be thrilled with 18 inches.
"Throttle" is actually the collective lever with twist throttle control if I'm not mistaken
I was at the Enstrom Helicopter factory in Menominee Michigan in 1980 for a one week school. Just walking through the fiberglass shop made me itch. The blow forming of the canopy bubble was hilarious to watch. The International Harvester Solar turbine is one tough little cookie. Having only been passenger in helicopters, I cringe getting into a piston powered ship. I like it that the governor on the turbine keeps the rpm's up when the pilot pulls for lift. The T-62 Solar was used in the H-3's I used to work on.
I am literally here because of MojoMike! Dude seems like you just kick it with him all day!
Good vid as always Mike, hopefully you can do some more helicopter videos if you get a chance! 😁👍🏽
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Dam...I'm 305
MojoGrip man I hate to be that guy but you got a lot of things wrong about helicopters.
What can I get one of these??
You taught me half the helicopter functions, now I should buy one such helicopter.
I remember watching your vid at the expo, looking forward to the technical details on this toy
Its 11.03pm here in Oz, i have an exam tomoz morning yet i decide to watch this.
Was worth it.
I NEED THIS FROM HOME TO OFFICE!!
It's like an RC model you can climb inside and fly, I love it!
I see you've been uploading videos for 3 years. Glad to be subbing today
That is some cool stuff.....I wanna fly one too. My miserable existence has no purpose
😂
🙂
Khondker Rifat Hossain well that escalated quickly! 😆
stand by my side as i ignite the engine then
Go get laid, dweeb
The flag is beautiful , hugs from Brazil! Great video
Love your videos. Keep them coming!
Hey Mike, great video as usual. 👍☺
For those interested composite fx is working on a 2 seat version called the swift. I believe they have an operational prototype but development has been put off as they have been working on UAVs for the government.
all you need after is a minigun and some rockets for a homebrew Cobra
Was just thinking as I saw this video how frustrating a single seater is. You really do want to be able to share a flying experience with another person if you're going to invest all that money.
If I couldn't terrorize a friend in that thing I'm not interested. 2-seats!
Thank you for making this one Mike love this bird!!
Great video! What an awesome little copter
I just keep thinking ffs don’t stand up lolol
Heavy_Haul_N_Fool
There will be a day, when your mind are too busy to check for logic and safety, you're gonna loose a head.
I was cringing when that guy was crouching down with the rotors spinning. I can see a decapitation in the future. Very cool helicopter though.
Car accidents kill 30,000 a year in the US alone and no one seems to think of cars as dangerous
Marvin's TV literally every adult drives a car, how many of your friends have a helicopter?.
Exactly, so the people around helicopters probably are well aware of the fact that there is a death fan above them... so you crouch. It's not hard.
@@ryansheridan8995 it's not hard to croch, but how many people will forget at some point and stand up to answer their phone?
Probably none. If they do, then you kinda earned that prize. If you can hear your phone over the rotor noise and try to have a phone call conversation under the rotors that is also kind of stupid of you.
That's bravery, right there! Super cool!
One of my dream helicopter mosquito XET
I usually see people ducking by a helicopter and think, why? I don't wonder why they duck next to this helicopter.
That's because the downdraft the propellers create is very strong and you can loose you're balance. So when you lower yourself you're lowering you're center of gravity so you won't fall over this is somthing i'de lernd while in the navy.
$50k? My truck costs $86k. Feeling ripped off.
I know. **kicks the dog**
i tell you what mate ,that thing should be less then 10.
You are truck is more useful than this piece of useless and dangerous shit
@@ChuckBeefOG sounds worth a trip to Canada all the way from texas if you really can get them nearly 40k off
Yet truck can carry more than the 200lbs payload, beyond this aircraft.
Cool vídeo Mike....I like your vídeos... your english is clear e easy to understand....
Thank you Mike I love your presentation beautiful helicopter easy to fly I wish was a little cheaper than that that way everybody can have fun flying one good job
Ok, now that you finally reviewed the mosquito, please Please PLEASE start reviewing gyrocopters/aerocopters/etc (other names, but all the same). They look like helicopters, but fly like fixed wings. I know I know I know that they're not a thing in the states, little interest, but interest in them here is growing. They're popular in Europe and now there's even an American company making them, in Maryland I think. Reasonably priced, fuel efficient, carries 1-3 people depending on company, make, and model, can fly up to 3-4hrs at a cruising speed of 100mph, very safe since they're pushers and the top rotor auto-rotates (not connected to engine). Just slowly hover down in an emergency landing. Of course it needs to be operated a certain way, but that's what the training is for right, safe fun and travel?
Noted!
They're not too popular privately but Gyrocopters are often used by the US Coast Guard
Go AWAY Weirdo
That's the point, a gyro flies like a fixed wing. You can't land it anywhere like you can a helo. Depends on what's on your fun meter.
True, but an experienced gyro pilot can take off from a space the size of a professional basketball court and land in a space the size of a local tennis court. So, gyros can go almost anywhere. Safe to fly, fuel efficient, affordable to buy. Cruising speed, range, take off length, landing length, etc are right in between a helo and fixed wing. A goldilocks aircraft, depending on the model, for my fun meter.
Flying coffin directly navigates u to Jesus..
or straight to hell.
That's why you go through training.
Lol,well,that's a quick way to meet Jesus.
spoken by a pussy.
I’m 14 and I own a mosquito xel helicopter I fly it to school in tn
I can see people debating whether to buy a new vehicle or this helicopter lol. Awesome video! You earned a sub
Thanks Mike.
Good job
We need a single seat turbine jet AIRPLANE that you can build for $50,000
Just subscribed.
Excellent video!!!
You got to admit this is so neat!!
That stick is actually called the collective not the throttle. A helicopters blade spins at the same speed it just changes the pitch of the rotors with the collective.
The collective has a throttle control on it. Source: was in a R22 today.
Collective and cynic pitch are the same thing? ummm wut
Daniel Guay that may be true but the way he made it sound was that the throttle is what makes you go up and down! Lol
mad ass Go look at the most basic helicopter control sketch and you will find out that the collective and cyclic are two very different things! Also the throttle could
be mounted on the collective stick on that model but the throttle is not what makes a helicopter go up and down!
The throttle is the twisting motion of that red handle on that stick which he was referring to. He just failed to mention that the up and down movement is the collective (that makes the heli go up and down).
1:30 - BRAZIIIIIL
Caralho kkkkkkkk custei muito pra ver
PP-ZVR ainda nada no RAB provavelmente virá pra cá!
Porque tem a bandeira do Brasil?
Feliph Pereira não, mas pelas letras, aeronaves brasileiras começam com PP, PT, PR...
Estranho é que esse helicoptero é experimental, deveria começar com PU
mas enfim
Da uma conferida no link abaixo
www.aviacaosemnocao.com/2018/03/21/matriculas-como-identificar-a-nacionalidade-de-uma-aeronave/
@@Feliph55 Talvez algum BR vai importar.
All the way in South Africa my man I love your videos
Great video, man.
I'll take 3.
Eu sou o único que se sentiu bem quando viu a bandeira do brasil? 🇧🇷
Opa BR!!!
Eu também 🇧🇷
Great videos. I like watching the video on mosquito helicopters. Thanks
Thanks for making this. I saw a prototype at an airshow and lost track of it.
Needs a cup holder
and a rocket launcher
1:47 olha a bandeira do Brasil 😀👏🇧🇷
Dude, you are a legend. Love your videos!
Keep on doing a great job my brother.
Cara esta com a bandeira do Brasil por que?
I LOVE HELICOPTERS
Cliente é brasileiro
Fique de pé para a bandeira e tenha a cabeça decepada
Aki e Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷😂
Nice video. That thing is very cool. It’s like a big R/C toy that you can ride in. 👍
Anybody else waiting for that dude to stand up lol
Without a doubt there will be multiple decapitations with this machine. Very cool though.
Anyone dumb enough to try to fly their helicopter from the outside of it while standing on the ground is too stupid to have a head on their shoulders in the first place and rightfully should have it removed.
@@ryanschaff123
This.
Darwin Award goes to the guy dumb enough to be under the blades as they rotate.
Darwin awards only go to those who die
It’s only a concern for people stupid enough for it to concern them. Anyone that stupid will either never have the money to buy a helicopter or will die regardless crashing a helicopter they are too stupid to fly.
@@frogsshadow4189 It's just a matter of time.
Great Job Mike Thanks ! !
I bought a XE285 because of your videos, after much driving from Pennsylvania, its home with me now ready to build. Been a long time waiting for parts. Sadly one of the tail blades that came in the kit is corroded and I'm disputing a return with FX Composites.
You’d think there’d be more then a single strap seatbelt
If you wreck at anything more than like 30' your dead anyway. What's the point? I'd rather have no belt and a parachute :P
I'm going to create my own Heli and it will be Electric
That's a nice chopper, I actually inquired about one recently.
Your a lovely man fella, we love you in the UK,,love and respect all the way from England 😀😀✊✊✊🇬🇧
So all in all after spending 50000 you can easily fall off the jet while looking around for your water bottle but the good part is you will still survive as it doesn’t go any higher than your walls
Nice!!!
Meta
Which? Airplane or Helicopter? Why?
Airplane now, helicopter in 10 years. Because I'll have the money to build my own private landing strip by then 😛
Helicopter for me, no runway required, and being able to fly at such low speeds would be awesome.
I think that would be what you plan on doing with it. I think this is perfect for a farm like environment.
Helis make me feel warm and fuzzy :)
The red button is the ejection seat.
Ejection = pureeing 😁
The Russians have a copter with ejection seats. A charge is built into the top of the rotor, and blows the blades off before the seat is ejected, giving clearance for safe ejection.
id want a 2 seater with a more powerful engine
They are currently working on a 2 seater call the Swift. I was able to take a sneak peek on my visit. I will upload my first impressions video soon.
🔵 All it takes is money!.....
no problem we will put in a chevy big block v8 572 in it and add some wheels so it can run on the road as well
This little chopper is just great for commuting to school or to work.
Finally, A Type Of Mosquito I Really Like!👍💗😺😃
🤣🤣The only mosquito I like
Aedes left the chat...
50k and they prolly profit 20k 😳 I’ll stay on the ground..
Wait!?! You mean to tell me they are not building private helicopters for free!?!? What kind of business would ever want to make a profit!?! Those bastards should of spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a manufacturing shop, equipment, tools, engineering designs, research & development, prototyping, parts supply and raw materials ALL FOR FREE DAMNIT! Guess you should get rid of your phone, computer, tv, shoes and everything else you have bought because it cost a fraction to make it than what you spent on it.
can you make it 2 seater for 70K?
They sell 2 seaters. They have them with doors. There’s different models
Why does it matter? If you are too stupid not know what an R22 than you have never been around helicopters, will never have a helicopter and will never pilot a helicopter. So why are you even asking?
2fastHarley you left out a word, you'll never be smart, or even close to being smart.
Fantastic and Congratulations
Great video, I really enjoyed, the only thing I am missing is the money to get me one.
@alan sullivan Pilot license?
Does it come with a coffin
That is standard, but you have to build it yourself. Also, the helicopter will not start unless you are wearing a toe tag.
It IS the coffin
It is the coffin!
JCAH1 thug looks a high school science project, that thing is dangerous af. Company not worried about customers suing because they will be dead most likely
It comes with the same coffin that cars and motorcycles that all kill hundreds of thousands of people come with.
This is too dangerous. You can easily chop someone's head off if you fly too low.
You do a great job on your videos.
Good one Mike.
50k flying casket
Your chance at dying in a car are greater! Driving is the most dangerous thing we do daily!. With proper maintenance and knowledge this could work quite well. But do you have that knowledge and or skill?
Malte Micha your a dumbass if you think that helicopters are the easier to crash than anything in the world
Better not catch a gust of wind......your 💀
How would you know? Speaking from experience? Most likely NOT.
HighSpeedNoDrag I guess these aren’t selling for ya....or you own one and now you feel like a jackass.
Omg I really want to learn to fly that. I so want one now.
Just a work of art.
Very good design i love one maked replication first an lathe after turbine enginenthank for shownfriend from Argentina
Beautiful!
yoo you my man, i love all tya videos....awesome men. watching from nigeria...luv
Very cute helicopter :)
Wow ! It's beautiful. Watch your head while she's running ! lol