Aérospatiale/Eurocopter Dauphin

[Triton]

Eurcopter video of historical benchmarks of the Aérospatiale/Eurocopter SA 365/AS365 Dauphin (2)

http://youtu.be/XCjtjkwtidw

 

[Retrofit]

Thanks Triton, I love this chopper!

 

[RavenOne]

After 4 deacdes, Airbus Helicopters delivers the last ever AS365 this time to Spanish CUstoms, I started my career working with AS365N3 maintenance 2 decades ago.

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...vers-the-last-ever-dauphin-to-spanish-customs

cheers

 

[yasotay]

Sigh - I am old

 

[Kaanere]

After 4 deacdes, Airbus Helicopters delivers the last ever AS365 this time to Spanish CUstoms, I started my career working with AS365N3 maintenance 2 decades ago.

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...vers-the-last-ever-dauphin-to-spanish-customs

cheers

Last European-built Dauphin, but from what I gather the Chinese license-produced Harbin Z-9 is still in production.

 

[TomcatViP]

Probably the sexiest rotarywing aircraft to have ever flown.

So much that Airbus had to prostitute itself with a designer and all the related inepties in their H160 project...

 

[H_K]

Probably the sexiest rotarywing aircraft to have ever flown

The early SA-360 was quite ugly though! But the Dauphin 2 design was greatly improved.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the SA-360 despite its looks… single engine and cheaper alternative to all the twin engined AS-365s, A109s, S-76s etc. Sad it didn’t get much traction.

 

[Archibald]

All Things Must Pass - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

One after another, all French "legendary" helicopters are retired. Although the super hyper mega Puma is still going strongly.

And there are still some Alouette III in very limited service in the French navy.

Aérospatiale Alouette III - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[aonestudio]

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