K.Kataoka's Room of Electric and Scale R/C Helicopters

My New Plannings: JR-50AGUSTA+ LOGO20 Piccolo222; ECO, PRO Hino's RC-plasticmodels My Electric-Agusta: Original, Autopilot, 4-blades Other Model-Agusta photos: Becker, Belluomini, Christian, Deregel, Hirano, Holger Japan, AgustaXRB Other Scale Helis : HIROBO, JR, VARIO, French Lama, French Mi-24, French Frelon, Ishikawa's paper fuselages Other Electric Helis: VARIO, SkyLark in Colombia, Robbe Sonic, Nakamura's Coaxis R/C Movies A history of EP helicopters Robbe Dash 7's room Display-models of Agusta : plastic, metal, Piazzai, card RC shops: Akihabara Links to other sites and dealer information

Click and see the flight of electric Agusta!

No Smoke Flight of electric R/C heli!

Compare the noise with that of 8 cell heli (Whisper-Cobra):

Fuselage
QuickTime Movies of Hovering	462KB	396KB
Sound Files QT, WAV, AU versions	Start to hovering 209KB (QT, WAV, AU) Flight 99KB (QT, WAV, AU)	Start to hovering154KB (QT, WAV, AU)

Look at Futaba's light sensor (optical autopilot) attached to the cobra for outdoor-flight stability !
Here is also a 23-cell electric shuttle with Astro's cobalt 40-8T, please hear a scream (188KB; QT or WAV or AU)!

Appearance in R/C Magazines and Video Softs

• VARIO Magazine, 1995 Heft 3, p11.
• Dempa Jikkensha: R/C Control Technique, Sept. 1995, Jan. 1996., and video soft '95 R/C Aeronautic Pageant. (See one scene in a gif-movie 430KB)
• Electric Flight International, June 1998, Traplet Publications, pp12-14: An article "Quiet Rotors" by Mike Goulet.
• RC AIR WORLD, November 2001; 5 pictures (1 large and 4 small) taken in the Second Festival on 26 August 2001 of R/C Scale Helicopters in Yamaguchi Village in Japan.

Websites on full-size Agusta 109 helicopters

• Agusta Westland Company
• Grand Adventure 08: A new record of arround the world by a helicopter
• Swiss Air Rescue : The famous user of high performance helicopter Agusta 109 K2
• Agusta 109 K2 in Toyama Police Rescue in Japan
• Rotor Wind: A large information site about full-size helicopters in Japan
• Koukuu-no Gendai (in japanese): Many articles by Mr. W. Nishikawa on full-size helicopters and aviations including many photographs.
• Kawasaki OH-1 "Ninja" Scout Helicopter Homepage: They have many photographs and MPEG-movies of full-size helicopters; in particular, there are 15 short but high resolution movies of Shizuoka Police's Agusta 109K2 in JASDF Shizuhama Airbase Airshow page of 2001&2000 Airshow Report.
• K2-tokyo's Shizuoka Police Agusta: 57MB movie for ipods.
  

Rental Video Softs featuring full-size Agusta 109 helicopters

• DAYS OF HELL (Afghanistan jigoku-no-hibi)
• JURASSIC PARK

Computer Simulator Softs featuring Agusta 109 helicopters

• IFLY IT: A very precise simulator soft of Agusta 109 Power for X-plane (for Mac, Windows, Linux).

R/C Club: FRF (Futako Riverside Fliers)

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