Why Helicopter Airlines Failed 

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Baby steps.

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And Helicopters that become planes.

Fingering Things ✔️ I meant aircraft. One vidéo without aircraft.

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There was a concept called the rotodyne which essentially was kind of a combination of aircraft and helicopter. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dkJOm1V77Xg.html It could have potentially worked in the city center and short haul markets.

@@livethefuture2492 but why did nobody tried it again? I mean the concept sound simple.

flying cars are just light aircraft with a different name

Most epic helicopter crash in Minneapolis 2020: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lCl7I7png08.html

@@fodebic5253 what

@@fodebic5253 ...epic helicopter crash?!

Lol literally me

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yes.. blump

Yep the best form if transport ........ Blimps

hindenburg

tasmanian Mapper laughs in hindenburg

Bruh the hindenburg

haha copter goes brRBrrrbrrRRrrr

Helicopters don't fly; they beat the air into submission.

They are so ugly the Earth repulses them. (Actually I think some of them are pretty)

Mindwipe96 the same way I beat my... you know what... nevermind...

@@btr-70 lmao

Have you any idea why this is the case? I'd think helicopter pilots are paid more because there is less of a surplus of them, which would drive cost up.

@meaturama but they can work much more hours

@@locusgaudi It can be relatively hard for helicopter pilots to find jobs because there just aren't many jobs for helicopters outside the military. Add onto that the fact most pilots would fly as a hobby with or without a job and you end up getting pilot openings which get scooped up quickly and for a relatively small salary.

You fly high voltage power lines. While there live. See how much you would ask for. As you have to be rock steady on the controls. Why most pilots have a minimum of 1500 hours. Just to have an interview. And since it cost on average $110.00 an hour to rent a cheap turbine model. You see how much they invested. As the average cost is $60,000.00 US for 200 hour sling load qualified..

Master Chief 00117 $110 an hour to rent a turbine.... are you smoking meth?! I’m not really sure what you’re saying or asking. I’ll take a stab at what I think you are (maybe)asking.... if the question is “ what would I ask for if I flew for a power line contractor?” A: $500/day is a good starting number for a highly qualified pilot (4,000+ hrs) I’d say. For me; it depends on required number of working days. I have a family so my time home is more important to me than it could be to someone else. Possible question 2: “why do most pilots have a minimum of 1500 hours to be hired?”... insurance companies set the hour requirements. An employer may take a pilot with less time however, the company would pay an increased premium to cover a lower time pilot (if the insurance company would even allow it). Pilots are becoming a hot commodity and hour requirements have been slowly going down for the entry-level turbine operators IE: tours in the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas and offshore Oil and Gas. I am assuming that the “110.00 per hour to rent an turbine” is a typing error.... most small turbines burn around that much money in fuel per hour. You’d be hard pressed to find a turbine for less than $800/hr. Lastly, flight training cost well above $60k (for helicopters). Most individuals who pay out of pocket spend in excess of $90k for all their ratings (depends largely on the aircraft and flight school you train with). Just this month, I heard that one of our new pilots spent over $200k!!!! Aviation is a tough business! The vast majority of us do it for one reason and one reason only.... we love aviation!

I found this video from that video you mentioned.

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The engines on it would need to be huge

Would be cool maybe like a flying cross you just hang on and fly across the ground a little faster than running

Rich people traveling faster while everyone else suffer from noise pollution. Should the health cost be included in the price? EDIT: Supposed to be its own post, not a reply.

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Sounds uncomfortable. How about 2 drones, connected by a hammock?

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not enogh seat...

@@AxxLAfriku please explain

That'll be more suitable for HAI, but you have a point

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Helijet in Vancouver flying between Vancouver, BC & Victoria, BC is doing recently well up until the COVID19 shit hit the fend.

something about the simplicity of the "imma end this man's whole career" mixed with the kinda cross-niche mixing of helicopters and bridges just makes me love this comment lmao, wish there was something like reddit gold in here

Hong Kong-Macao Car: get a licence of both Macau and HK (they don’t accept it each other’s licence) , insure your car twice, use an hour to cross the bridge near the airport, another hour to reach the city centre, pay in RMB, which is not used by neither Macau or HK Helicopter: 15 Minutes flight time, fast border check, lands on the rooftop of HK Peninsular Hotel, pay in HKD The bridge should be compared to the ferry, not helicopter

It'll put the ferry service out of business too.

In theory, but the bridge requires two custom checks instead of one for ferries

Lol! Same

Wow so it wasn't just me

@@SeanFerree Haha same

Ok, glad it wasn't just me.

yep same here

We have trains for that but trains are for pesants. So the wealthy use helicopters.

Bruh, only the rich are riding helicopters here.

The us isn’t high enough density to have high speed trains. Canada and Australia don’t either.

Seriously the us is way larger than European countries. Us states are larger than European countries so we have to drive and fly everywhere.

Yeah, we need a noisy polluting type of transport, only for the rich that can make life worse for the peasants on the ground...

Singapore-Kuala Lumpur: Train takes even longer than coach

you do...you do know america is massivly bigger and more sparse than europe right? how insanly expensive and how long it would take to do that?

@@nimbusshadow-wings But this entire video is about *short-haul* flight replacements. The examples at the end of 'city center to accompanying airport' and 'downtown NYC to Hampton Bays' are exactly the kind of places that you want to lay a rail network with both short-stop services stopping all along the route and a fast service that goes the distance instantly. I understand that it is hard to get people to sit in a train for 30 hours of train travel from NYC to LA, but NYC to DC, the longest flight in this video, is only 225 miles, about 300 kilometers, by car and a train line could go through Edison, Trenton, Philadelphia and Baltimore, share the cost of maintaining it, and you could have train services with stops in each city taking only 3 hours (which maps says current train services take), and premium 'direct' services taking less than 2 (if the network is configured for about 200km/h on stretches between cities, and you travel at about 60-100km/h inside cities). That is already shorter than going by plane if you take all the time you need to be there for check-in into account!

@@mennoltvanalten7260 as referring to due to america being so large everyone has cars so unless you dont plan on ever leaving the city most people use their cars

@@nimbusshadow-wings That has nothing to do with America being bigger or rail in the US being more expensive, and also... the vast majority of people in Europe have cars too. The real problem is that the railways in the US are owned by freight companies rather than by a dedicated company or the state like in most European countries, causing those companies to make the most profit off of freight, instead of making equal profit or preferring the reliability of passengers.

Kevilito 07 proceeds to make it about planes anyway

shut up canada

Came here to comment exactly this! Love HeliJet and Harbour Air

Helijet ('86) and Harbour Air ('93): Sea plane and helicopter passenger airlines all in one city. Both around for a solid length of time and still going strong.

@@daleva187goligo No, you shut up. We have a thriving helicopter (Helijet) and float plane industry up here, both great services on the coast of BC.

One of the natural consequences of putting the Provincial capital on an island when the largest metropolitan centre is on the mainland

Same in Spain with Helity, joining Ceuta with Algeciras and Malaga.

Correct, Airbus Helicopters actually invested in one such opportunity and just divested not long ago

In São Paulo, the helicopter companies are multiple private airlines. Given the traffic problem, it is some times cheaper to use a helicopter than taking a taxi. It is so bad that sometimes it is faster to go from Campinas (a nearby city about 100km) to São Paulo university than going from Morumbi (a close neighborhood about 10km) to the university by car. In this situation, helicopters thrive. They are the fastest transport if you can afford it.

Yeah I remember watching a documentary from like the 70s about Sao Paulo's heliports... All the skyscrapers have helipads

@@Squaretable22 I'm from Sao Paulo and I can confirm that you are absolutely right If you want to see just wacht a video of the approach in CGH (Congonhas airport) and you will see all the helipads ;)

I think it's mosly the geography of Brazil that help that out.

Was about to comment the same thing

Not sure how he missed that. Its pretty affordable too

Yeah, I was also surprised that HeliJet wasn't mentioned as it seems like a textbook example. Vancouver also has a long history of scheduled seaplane service from the Harbour Airport (CYHC) by multiple airlines and there are even International flights between downtown Vancouver and Seattle.

I'm sure Wendover and crew don't want to acknowledge any Floatplanes based out of Vancouver ;)

yah Vancouver is one of the busiest seaplane airport

Early rotor blade designs were similar regardless of manufacturer, with a D-shaped metal spar. Technology to detect fatigue fractures was still in early development. Introduction of the BIM system by Sikorsky and the ISIS system by Boeing-Vertol was a giant step in reducing rotor blade issues. Later development of fiberglass and composite rotor blades, and accompanying flight hour limitation, has reduced blade failures to a number approaching zero.

haha ikr for the entirety of this video I was just thinking, it is possible to go city center to city center at 300km/h, and instead of paying $400 you pay $50.

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@@WHATSAHANDLEIDKIDK Finally someone gets it!

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I regularly saw people walking to the city to avoid paying the bus. My school was 10min walk at most from the entrance

Ryanair used Barcelona-Resus airport which is... 120km away from the centre of Barcelona.

wait what if they eject down instead of up

the thing is that they only eject when the engine fails AKA the blades wont be moving fast enough to chop you up would hurt as hell tho

Commercial helicopters take off all the time, checkmate

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He even used some stock footage of a Harbour Air seaplane taxing near the Coal Harbour seaplane base in Vancouver. Victoria to Vancouver also has regularly scheduled helicopter service between the city cores with HeliJet as well.

Vancouver Victoria has had scheduled flights by both Seaplanes (Harbour Air $150) and Helicopters (Helijet - $230) since the mid 80s. A lot of that is supported by business travel between the province's largest city (Vancouver) and seat of the provincial government (Victoria).

I was sad he didn't mention it.

That's the thing about companies such as Harbour Air, BLADE, and etc. Majority of their customers would pay (regardless of price, just off of convenience alone. Hours in traffic or less than an hour by air and closer to your destination. Surprisingly, in New York, there are twice as many people (if not more), that travel to the airport, than they do to the Hamptons, yet the Hamptons routes are more successful, due to the fact there is a huge demand for it in the summer. BLADE kind of revolutionized helicopter travel in New York, which then influenced other big companies such as Airbus and Uber to get in on the action and then try to branch out in world.

How is that convenient? He literally just forgot

@meaturama and no one asked for you to reply

@meaturama people care about Canada more than they do for your opinion.

And also forgets about Helity, who runs Ceuta, Malaga and Algeciras.

...and shows footage of Harbour Air! LOL

I do care aboot nuclear wastes before came across his channel.

bruh lol

HOLY SHIT THIS IS BRILLIANT

Pure destruction

OMG that's smart

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I don’t get it

@Austin Martín Hernández *Cries in Australia*

Agreed!

@Austin Martín Hernández trains cant cross oceans, unfortunately. So sometimes use planes.

Or, after showing videos of vancouver's harbour air, fails to mention their cheap flights (which are way lower cost than the east coast flights he was talking about)

I’d fly

“How Wendover Productions bought every single plane in the world”

This guy chinas

Also, there's a bridge-tunnel now

No kidding! Unit cost [Wikipedia] is US$72 million. Operating cost: US$11,500 per hour. Excellent sense of humour! Agreed.

Me, having riden in Ospreys quite a few times: Oh noooo....

Go independent and pay for your insurance and benefits out of pocket. Wages are only a fraction of what labor costs.

Suryan Isaac what

Search Half As Interesting

Nah, that channel would only be 50% as interesting as the main channel.

There's some stock footage of a HarbourAir plane in Vancouver around 10:03 But yes, for Vancouver and Victoria in particular, this is worth examining. It makes it easy for wealthier patrons to jump from the downtown of one city to the other relatively quickly - compared with driving well outside of town to the ferry terminals, taking a 90-minute ferry ride, then driving back into the other downtown core.

Also Kenmore Air has scheduled flights to Victoria, San Juan Islands, Orca Islands as well as Mt St Helens and Mt Rainer as wel as charter flights.

the bell v 280 is an amazing tilt rotor. It tilts only the rotor, making it significantly cheaper and more efficient. While it is currently being developed as a replacement for the osprey, I believe there is potential in them for civilian applications too!

Washington isn’t in a state

@@KanyeTheGayFish69 I know, but "political entity" didn't have the same ring.

I went to the Air & Space museum next to Dulles (Way better than the one in D.C) and it took me like an hour and a half to go from the edge of the district to the Museum and I had to wait half and hour on the metro & a 45 minute city bus trip.

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He mainly missed the fact that it is still open. First business aviation airport in Europe.