Helicopter Images

[V5 - LEO]

Bell 222B N510W at Rand Airport FAGM 222 CN 47133
11 Oct 2019

...she's quite butchered, donor craft
??

No, stripped down for respray..this one will be flying soon

...txs papa Bear!

[cage]

No, stripped down for respray..this one will be flying soon

At some point Henley will run out of old carcusses to buy and have to get some proper aircraft instead of these old bangers that no one else wants.
It's quite a frankensteinian approach to running a service.

[Bearcat]

No, stripped down for respray..this one will be flying soon

At some point Henley will run out of old carcusses to buy and have to get some proper aircraft instead of these old bangers that no one else wants.
It's quite a frankensteinian approach to running a service.

Way too harsh Mr Cage... nobody disses King Air's built in the 80's and 90's as not being respectable aeroplanes so why should it be that only the newest fling wings are deemed acceptable

[cage]

No, stripped down for respray..this one will be flying soon

At some point Henley will run out of old carcusses to buy and have to get some proper aircraft instead of these old bangers that no one else wants.
It's quite a frankensteinian approach to running a service.

Way too harsh Mr Cage... nobody disses King Air's built in the 80's and 90's as not being respectable aeroplanes so why should it be that only the newest fling wings are deemed acceptable

Because Bell only sold a few, they were underpowered, have way too big a footprint and in the 2000’s no one in their right mind tries to use one for HEMS. It’s an unsustainable business model while everyone else invests in aircraft that are better suited for the job.

[Whirly]

At some point Henley will run out of old carcusses to buy and have to get some proper aircraft instead of these old bangers that no one else wants.
It's quite a frankensteinian approach to running a service.

Way too harsh Mr Cage... nobody disses King Air's built in the 80's and 90's as not being respectable aeroplanes so why should it be that only the newest fling wings are deemed acceptable

Because Bell only sold a few, they were underpowered, have way too big a footprint and in the 2000’s no one in their right mind tries to use one for HEMS. It’s an unsustainable business model while everyone else invests in aircraft that are better suited for the job.

cage,

What is the name of your helicopter company and how many do you own? Henley has been around for yonks' and is a very successful company, I trust that Andre and his team know what they are doing. The "assumptions" people make regarding other people's businesses are mostly so way off as they don't have a clue what goes on in the background.

Whirly.

[cage]

Henley has been around for yonks' and is a very successful company, I trust that Andre and his team know what they are doing.

Where did I say otherwise?
I just said it was unsustainable to use 222's.
They are an end of life aircraft, not that many were made and all the ones being bought now are being offloaded by US HEMS operators.
You can only canabalise for so long.
At some point you will have to be like the other HEMS operators and invest in newer aircraft.

Those are big, heavy machines and not particularly well suited to operating in urban envrionments due to their large footprint.
Why do you think so many others use 117's or 135's.

[Whirly]

Henley has been around for yonks' and is a very successful company, I trust that Andre and his team know what they are doing.

Where did I say otherwise?
I just said it was unsustainable to use 222's.
They are an end of life aircraft, not that many were made and all the ones being bought now are being offloaded by US HEMS operators.
You can only canabalise for so long.
At some point you will have to be like the other HEMS operators and invest in newer aircraft.

Those are big, heavy machines and not particularly well suited to operating in urban envrionments due to their large footprint.
Why do you think so many others use 117's or 135's.

Because they don't have the expertise to run these machine like Henley does? Maybe by the end of their lives Henley will have made tons of money out of them to afford these other expensive machines should they chose to do so?

Whirly.

[Tic]

Without trying to jump into the middle of this one...

BUT - can anyone give cost/hour comparisons for 222 vs 117 vs 135

I see Halo have 117's @ Ultimate and 222's based ? FALA?

[Ray W]

JUST COOL IT GUYS

[Bearcat]

N3 Highway JHB
Bell 222 UT ZS-HDI
4 April 2015

[Bearcat]

Aerospatiale Alouette II ZU-RAH
5 May 2006

[Cornell Blok]

Way too harsh Mr Cage... nobody disses King Air's built in the 80's and 90's as not being respectable aeroplanes so why should it be that only the newest fling wings are deemed acceptable

Because Bell only sold a few, they were underpowered, have way too big a footprint and in the 2000’s no one in their right mind tries to use one for HEMS. It’s an unsustainable business model while everyone else invests in aircraft that are better suited for the job.

cage,

What is the name of your helicopter company and how many do you own? Henley has been around for yonks' and is a very successful company, I trust that Andre and his team know what they are doing. The "assumptions" people make regarding other people's businesses are mostly so way off as they don't have a clue what goes on in the background.

Whirly.

[Whirly]

Aerospatiale Alouette II ZU-RAH
5 May 2006

Thanks Bearcat! My machine.

What she looks like now.

Whirly.

[Bearcat]

Aerospatiale SA-341 Gazelle ZU-HBH at Brits Airfield FABS
10 Nov 2018

[allanroy]

ZS-HSK landed in Simons Town this afternoon to airlift a patient.