Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Robinson R22 hovering. The R22 is a light, two-place, single reciprocating-engined helicopter, with a semirigid, two-bladed main rotor and a two-bladed tail rotor. The main rotor has a teetering hinge and two coning hinges. The tail rotor has only a teetering hinge. The normal production variant has skid landing gear.
The Robinson Helicopter Company, based at Zamperini Field in Torrance, California, is an American helicopter manufacturer. As of 2024 [update] , Robinson produces three models: the two-seat R22 , the four-seat R44 , both of which use Lycoming piston engines , and the five-seat R66 , which use Rolls-Royce turbine engines .
The R44 Raven II, a successor of the Robinson R22. Robinson resigned from Hughes in 1973 and founded the Robinson Helicopter Company (RHC). [3] RHC’s first business address was Robinson’s home, where the two-seat R22 helicopter was designed. The first R22 prototype was built in a hangar at the Torrance Airport, and Robinson personally flew ...
Cyclic control in a Robinson R22. Any rotor system has a delay between the point in rotation where the controls introduce a change in pitch and the point where the desired change in the rotor blade's flight occurs. This difference is caused by phase lag, often confused with gyroscopic precession. A rotor is an oscillatory system that obeys the ...
Robinson R22: 4,800+ [5] United States: 1979–present Hughes OH-6 Cayuse: 4,700 [6] United States: In production as MD-500 series. Also built under license by Kawasaki, Korean Air Aerospace and Breda Nardi (Agusta). 1965–present Mil Mi-4: 4,000: Soviet Union: In China as Z-5. 1951-1979 Hughes TH-55 Osage: 2,800 + United States: Later as ...
Pages in category "Robinson aircraft" ... Robinson R22; Robinson R44; Robinson R66 This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 04:17 (UTC). ...
(Rand-Robinson Engineering Inc, Huntington Beach CA.) Rand Robinson KR-1; ... Robinson R22; Robinson R44 & R44 Raven I/II; Robinson R66; Robinson Aircraft Co
An O-320-B2C mounted in a Robinson R22 helicopter O-320-B2C 160 hp (119 kW) at 2700 rpm, Minimum fuel grade 100/130 or 91/96 avgas, compression ratio 8.50:1. Same as B2B but with retard breaker magnetos. [4] O-320-B2D 160 hp (119 kW) at 2700 rpm, Minimum fuel grade 91/96 avgas, compression ratio 8.50:1.