Bell 214 Helicopter Startup

[mawzthefinn]

Just to be exact, the 214ST has the elongated passenger compartment, this is a 214B which is has single-engine T-55 engine and the meter chord blades. The blades are far too wide to be anything other than a 214.

[Kronik2g2]

Now I've seen it all, a flying helicopter with it's main rotor...well not rotoring...lol...Gotta love those old cameras...kool trick.

[jmartin1087]

This is a 212!!!!

The 214 has 4 BLADES, the 212 has 2 BLADES. So you know. :3

[FJones9508]

@jmartin1087 The 412 has 4 blades. The 214 is a variant designed off of the 212 platform for long line vertical reference use. That is in fact a 214.

[CHskidder]

@jmartin1087

Yeahh, with de 2 blades of the tailrotor he has 4.....

[RedDevilPilot]

EXACTLY!! Its a Bell 212. If it were a 214 the passenger compartment would be elongated down the tail boom. If it was a 412 it would have four blades. This aircraft appears to be a Bell 212 @jmartin1087

[spaceballs7]

@RedDevilPilot Once and for all, this is a 214. look close at the MR no stabilizer bar 2 blade wide chord 50' dia rotor shared with the cobra AH-1T+ variant. Jumbo exhaust can from a SINGLE Honeywell T-55 engine  top rated 2930shp derated to 2050shp. (B)variant was the commercial model,(A/C)variants sold to Iran in the mid 1970's. Now I can go to sleep!

[jsr116]

@RedDevilPilot wrong. i fought fire with the machine as bucket support in 2008 in BC. Its a Bell 214. No 212 would lift what i saw this machine lift at altitude.

[shfullclip9mm]

that a 214 or a 212 it looks more like a 212 to me

[jsr116]

We had this very machine longlining for us in BC in 2009 on the "Kelly Lake Fire" near Clinton, BC. Beautiful machine and awesome pilots.. some of the best bucket work i've seen done.

[PsuPepperoni]

its like stop-motion animation

...or motion-stop animation in this case

[75niteowl]

Not being critical, just throwing forth an idea.. If the main rotor speed is the exact same as the camera film speed, wouldn't that make the main rotor blades seem stationary, as we see here?

[jamesrichardson63]

yes....u c it a lot here on utube vids of helicopters

[skipplet]

The rotor speed would have to be exactly the same or a multiple of the camera film speed.

[aheartattack1]

holy shit a 3 foot blade chord! thats fucking retarded! its like the main wing on a cessna 150 (exageration) those arent blades there fucking padles!

[planedude91]

y is that retarted?

[snaileri]

In most video games, helicopters are ready to take-off 5-10 seconds after the rotors are turned on :D

Nice to see actually how long it takes in real life.

Seems like it takes 3 mins or so.

Yea, I haven't seen a helicopter take-off IRL yet :/

[wheelingdude12]

I've got a question but I think I know the answer already, y didn't the top rotor blades, spin fast like they usually do?, was it cause of the age of the camera u used?, or was it the speed of the blades were so fast that it was made to look slow the untrained eye?

[kangaroojack1]

The camera was an old. I believe the 214 main rotor turns at a little over 300 rpm.

[743one]

330rpm. if I recall was operating speed.

[grumpyoldman1966]

The growl of the turbines and the whoop of the blades, I could listen to all day...sweeet

[letmeknowtruth]

thats is the best sound in the world, those turbines firing up the the rotor wash! LOVE IT.

[katana1150]

Well according to the canadian civil aircraft registry website it is a Bell 214B-1 built in 1978. Owned by East West Transportaion Ltd.

I'm assuming that it is under contract by the British Columbia Ministry of Forest Protection branch Rappattack. I'm guessing that it was refueling before going back out to fight forest fires.

[swingwing205]

Does anyone know the distance of the chord of the blades on this thing? They look about 3 foot in chord, they're much bigger than the 205 blades for chord. Also, the turbine is a T55 correct?

[greg8698]

It might have a T55 but some of the 214's  had LTC4B's instead.

[kentuckywhisky]

Yeah 214 have a 36" chord so yeah 3 foot. And from memory the blades spin 10rpm slower then the 205.

[swingwing205]

Now that's a helicopter. I wonder if the rotor head is Cobra spec? I was told that it was...Anyone know this for sure or not?

[cwiller]

depress trigger, check voltage drop, 2nd click @ 10%, twist on @ 12%, lower collective, release @ 37%, stabilize 58% +/- 1%. whop Whop Whop....

[cwiller]

A Huey is a UH-1, closer to the 204. tail rotors are on different sides. great paint on that 214. fantastic ship.

[eroby371]

isn't that basically a huey but it's civilian?

[wranglerguy06]

I love the smell of Jet Fuel in the morning

[squidman101]

it looks like the blade arn't moving

[greatdaine]

that sound is enough to give me a boner

[embernach]

I know what mean mate! There is a 412 model wit 2 big round exhausts an more updated looking cabine, I saw it in a book.

[LaOnicap1972]

the 412 has 4 blades...still makes the thump thump but its quicker than the 2 blade...

[embernach]

I ment a 212 instead of 412, Greetings from the Netherlands.

[embernach]

Correction: 214! sorry mate.

[Merlin28SQN]

yea correct manni.. Didn't notice that!

[Merlin28SQN]

Its a Bell 212, not a 214!

[bushpig205]

Merlin from 28 sqn

Please tell me why you think that its a 212

and not a Bell214B-1

Curious to know.

[mannib25]

Actually it's not a 212, it's a 214B, they have the same nose as a 212. You can tell it's a 214 by the single huge exhaust in the back.

[bushpig205]

and the huge blades with no stab bar...

[embernach]

I think the blades are same as on the Cobra models.

[eligs340]

that's real right?

[kangaroojack1]

it's real, registration C-FXNI

[slednecks17]

Beautiful Bird by the way

[slednecks17]

Nope.. thats a Remote controlled heli... not real at all... jokes. its real.