BELL 47 "SOLOY" 💥 FULL START-UP + TAKE-OFF (4K RAW SOUND)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Watch "OE-XDM" the Soloy Turbine converted Bell 47 of The Flying Bulls start up it's engine and take-off from Red Bull Hangar-7 in Salzburg Airport (LOWS) in Austria.
About the Helicopter:
After its maiden flight on December 8th 1945, the Bell 47 was the first civilian helicopter to receive a license for the United States. With different models such as a military or a civilian version with floats or skids the light helicopter was perfect for all sorts of operations - crop dusting on farms, mountain and sea patrols to ambulance flights. The Bell also taught thousands of pilots how to fly a helicopter!
Eye-striking features of the helicopter include the distinctive Plexiglas cockpit, also known as a ‘goldfish bowl’ and the open lattice pipe construction.
The Bell 47 (model D-1) made history 60 years ago. On September 17th 1952, the pilot Elton J. Smith broke the distance record for piston-engined helicopters flying a total of 1,958.8km between Hurst, Texas and Buffulo, New York. Incredibly, the record still stands today and may never be broken.
Lycoming engines with horsepower ranging between 260 and 305 Turbo-HP used to fuel the two-blade-rotor. A Franklin 6V4-200 C 32 boxer motor was installed in earlier G-models. However, there were more advanced models that were equipped with an Allison turbine and later a Rolls Royce. A company named Soloy Aviation in the United States converted these models.
Despite its low weight of 800kg, the Bell 47 is not only easy to handle, but also able to fly safely in case of engine failure. Until 1974, 6,000 models of the American multi-purpose helicopters were manufactured. When the Bell 47 was patented for Italian manufacturer Agusta as well as Westland Aircraft from England and the Japanese company Kawasaki, it became one of the most popular and successful helicopters worldwide.
Today, the Bell 47 is a desired rarity and popular with helicopter pilots, in particular the Soloy version. The Bell 47-Soloy, which is considered the most beautiful model, now has its place in Hangar-7 in Salzburg not far from where it once delivered its famous movie performances.
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The original was my first chopper to fly in 1970. Tied to ground TILL you can hover. Loved it!! But then I flew Huey UH 1 in Nan. Much different especially when the bullets came right through and out other side, could ruin your day and your Medivac mission! Made me wish I was back flying the 47 in Germany!! KEEP EM FLYING !!!!!
Thanks for your service mate,you medivac guys saved so many troops and there would be a lot less children of Vietnam vets without you guys,thank you and God bless.🇦🇺🇺🇲🙏
I'm glad I found this channel. Aircraft startup ASMR is my jam.
We are happy to have you 🙌 lean back and enjoy! There is more to come 💥
Joe Soloy's son was one of our A&P students at Portland Community College ! Good student!
I trained on a Soloy converted Bell 47 in Calgary early 80’s . C-FNOG , lots of power and would really climb
Alpine built two. C-FNOB being the other, based out of Kelowna. I was there for a while.
What a beauty. I used to have my hands as a student pilot on the 260 HP Lycoming Bell 47-G3, way back in the early 1980's. It was a 30 years old airplane from the UK, sold to Switzerland (HB-XLX).
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Amazing what you can make from a goldfish bowl and a meccano set
That old bird would still be a ton of fun to fly. Awesome video.
Great video with great camera work, many fantastic angles and close ups!! AND fantastic sound!! Thanks for sharing!! Subscribed!!
Awesome video! 🤗I saw this helicopter last summer in Salzburg. It was displayed in Hangar 7.
magnifique vidéo. J'ai volé UNE seule fois dans ce type d'appareil, le 12 juin 1999, aérodrome régional d'Yverdon-les-Bains/Vaud/Suisse, avec un pilote exceptionnel. J'ai eu l'occasion de piloter cet hélicoptère qui a marqué mon expérience aéronautique.
Very nice work ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I had a ride in a Hiller 12-E Soloy conversion back in the day. I have 40 hours of 12-E time but never finished to get my add-on to fixed wing.
Did anyone else hear the MASH theme song?
This is a very well done video...great camera work and good up-close shots. I was wondering when somebody would get around to doing this. The "47" has been around for 77 years, and finally got a turboshaft engine. Great work.
Thank you very much!
MAGNÍFICO...👏👏👏👏
Love that Bell
McDermott Aviation in Queensland Australia have a bunch of these doing AG (agriculture)
work spraying for mosquitoes and fire ants.
Perfect Bokeh effect (?) the Sioux looks like a tiny 1/72 scale model 😂
beautiful photography.
Hi from NZ,
Anthony
I have seen the original,one withe the flat six engin its amazing that it is the first civil helicopter for civilians not army or so on
FWIW: Decades ago I saw an Allison {now Rolls Royce} turboshaft-powered Bell 47 somewhere near Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Not flying, just sitting on the ground.
I also think I was a turboshaft-powered Hiller Helicopter somewhere. MAYBE on the same trip where I saw the Bell 47, I cannot remember for sure.
The GTA vice city plane how legendary
Oh. It was 'Like' 700))
I flew an AS 350 converted to a C 30 Soloy in Alaska, and it did okay. You just can't compare it to a genuine Turbomeca B 2 etc........
Jet Sioux!☺
That is interesting and I assume performance is much enhanced as the aircraft/rotorcraft is much lighter. What is it called the Bell 47T? Is this experimental or is this an approved (stc) modification?
The same conversion was done with the Hiller 12E
3:33 startup starts.
quiz ? 0:47 what is the levers on top for ... AMT guys shhh.
nice . engine looks like 250c20 in h369 configuration.
where did they get the blades? 🙆
Clever CGI
Nope just me and my camera 🙌
Sounds like a Huey starting up.
4077 M.A.S.H !!!
INCOMING!!!
So…I wonder what this would be like with the modern Hughes 500 drivetrain and four blade rotor system?
It’s a bit jarring to hear a Bell 47 start with a turboprop engine. As with the original design, this aircraft is all about form follows function. There is nothing there that doesn’t need to be there. Function dictates a modern power plant.
My favorite helicopter my favorite engine but no I'm a purist.
Why did you not check it for Uppydowneyness like I usually see done upon initial Uppyness? Please.
So flight time between fueling 20 minutes..
It had a turbine! That’s cheating. Turbo 4 cylinder and manual governing back in my day.
the only REAL 47-G is the one with a boxer piston engine.
You will have to stick with that one on here until I get to see the REAL one hopefully some day soon 🙌
I made comment 700. or 699 ))
流石にベル47Gでアクロバットはやめてね😂
All that whine....money into noise.
That turbine looks a lot like the Allison T63-A5A that powerd my loh's.
C20 came with the kit. But the C18 was usually substituted as it still produced more torque than the transmission would tolerate. Then you could use the C20 in your 206A and turn it into a 206B