I will say something postive the Brantly: I was given an opportunity to
hover a Brantly before I ever had any helo dual. I was able the first time
to hold the ship in position with the Cyclic without the instructor having
to grab. Something that never happened with anything short of a UH-1N
before. Certainly ot the Safari, not the R22, and not the Bell 47 nor the
Schweitzer 300CB. So I think the Brantly is much easier to fly. It just
doesn't seem to have the performance of other more twitchy helos.

Stu Fields
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"Stu & Kathy Fields" wrote:

The power/wt and hp/wt is as good or better than the Safari. But......

the brantly is a piece of junk. I'll take my scorpion over a brantly
any day.

BTW, the hub system on a brantley is a retarded attempt at a fully
articulated hub system. It has three heavy blades with the lead-lag
hinge about half way out on the blade. Its true, I'm not joking, the
blade hinges way out in the middle about 6 feet out.

No two-passenger helicopter should have been overloaded with those two
skinny guys in there. One was trapped underwater because the cockpit
is so cramped. Fortunately, he was able to pop the windscreen out and
escape through there.

Save your money and buy something besides a brantly.

Dennis H.


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