HX50 Monthly Update & AMA - 2 July 2024 

Fantastic presentation! 😃

I've watched the first 18 minutes so far. This is the best video yet. Beautifully shot and edited, and with a great soundtrack. Looking forward to the rest, and hope future videos are up to this standard!

I am so impressed that, for a Brit, Dr Hill's speech is so easy to understand. Also how clearly he explains all of the technical design, engineering, and production details so us common helicopter pilots can understand everything he is telling us. He speaks our language! Seems like one of us?

Dying to see it fly!!!!

It's amazing to see how Hill Helicopters and their products are evolving. Thanks for sharing such detailed progress updates with the public.

great host, and the camera person when viewing machines did a fantastic job! instead of focusing on only his face, u actually do span around and show the machine as well having the host in the middle, exelent! hope more start doing that!

Looking really good. Good to see rapid professional growth. She will be in the air flying soon 👍👍👍👍

Hill should releae a printable model of the HX50 so we can hold and look it over.

Wow someone has put a lot of time and money into this well-done wow.

Best information's yet.

Another exciting update!

Very interesting that you've done single piece fuselage, that's an idea I've had to get strength and save on finishing and not combining two sides. I would much rather make more molds to speed it up than depart that advantage. I've also considered zero tolerance metal molds polished to mirror finish so you get optical finish out of the box. No finishing at all. Regarding lighting, rather than multiple spotlights, can't it be done in a single unit? I would think a large enough LED surface or array combined with a single lens shape can give you whatever cone shape you want at almost whatever intensity you want because LEDs can be very powerful. Car high beams might be up to 3000lumen, the Imalent hand flashlight is 100k and is smaller than a VW beetle headlight. I imagine that 20k is plenty for the helicopter so should be possible with a quite small single optics emitter, maybe two elements in a single lens so you don't have a single point of failure. Maybe the lens can be the same piece of polycarb as the outer 'glass' such that it's not a spotlight behind a protective cover but one piece. Simplification, optimization. Regarding the cockpit displays, in this video you lean forward quite substantially to engage with it. I get that that gives a sense of space in the cockpit but it undermines the utility of the displays. It's a classic design choice in aviation to get the instrumentation at a distance as these loyal subjects to the king, behold the vast domain I command but that's a substantial mistake. As a test try placing them half the distance from your head. same visual top line. The moment the display is your only view to the world it's simply a big mistake to keep it at that small a field of view. Try marking that size of field of view on the canopy glass and black out everything else. Just imagine how igloo a view that would be. Don't think of them as two round dials in a 1970s car. The thinking should be more like a VR headset. Not that it should be strapped to the head but in zero visibility it is your view to the world and abstracting on a view through a toilet roll (which many aviation designs impose without realizing it) is just not good cognitive ergonomics. Having a general level of disdain for convention is healthy and the justification for that can be seen in that even the very latest of airliners like the A350 have no synthetic vision or any other vision in zero visibility. Even brand new 500m$ planes fly blind by numbers and very recently an airliner was scraping tree tops in New York until the tower warned about low altitude. Seconds from crashing. I believe there was a second incident recently as well. And many helicopters have crashed because they fly blind. I see aviation get worked up in procedures and complexity and entirely miss obviously beneficial things. The helicopter Kobe Bryant died in was a perfectly certified extremely expensive helicopter, maintained at extreme cost according to all the bureaucracy, a pilot with all the elaborate certifications, flying elaborate detours to accommodate ATC rules yet a 500$ synthetic vision display so they could actually see something and had saved their lives was not a requirement anywhere. All that bureaucracy in the name of safety and they allow it to fly blind.

Hi , great update ! I am a EMS pilot, got out of flight school in 1989 so I was wondering if you can tell us a little about the pilot input on your project ? Do you guys have test pilots and if so ,what is their back ground ? Have they ACTUALLY worked for a living LOL , outside the military ? Looking forward to the next update 🙂 Amund Moe Lead pilot Bayflite 3 , Tampa

Do they actually have a flying helicopter yet? Or is it all prototype type mockup still?

damn that heli looks sick

How does carbon fiber compare to aluminum airframes in a hard landing?

I wish all the best to HILL, but just remember Kopter in the beginning wanted to revolutionize the helicopter industry too...... Developing the Engine, Airframe and Avionics at the same time.... Its very brave (when you have a lot of money) or very stupid (when you dont have a lot of money)

guys a good salesman

These guys should be running Boeing

How will the US deliveries of the Helicopters happen?

Please make time codes for such long videos.

What took so long for this to happen?

Time flies

Airwolf 2024

Its funny when a group of people just choose do get something done.

I AM MOSES HILL HAVE YOU ALL FORGOT ABOUT ME?

its electric helicopter?

You guys and gals are doing it looks Pukka 👏

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