HX50 Monthly Update & AMA - 2 July 2024

[@ricklangley9482]

I am so impressed that, for a Brit, Dr Hill's speech is so easy to understand. Also how clearly he explains all of the technical design, engineering, and production details so us common helicopter pilots can understand everything he is telling us. He speaks our language! Seems like one of us?

[@spdcrzy]

He IS. He's also a unique mind that specialized in engineering analysis and contract work relating to aerospace. A man that understands those regulations AND the engineering at a very fundamental level is automatically one in a million. A man that is capable of all that AND is capable of bringing a multidiscplinary team together is ten times rarer.

[@abtechgroup]

Amazing! Just retiring when this beauty is emerging.....

[@CrossMAX82]

It's amazing to see how Hill Helicopters and their products are evolving. Thanks for sharing such detailed progress updates with the public.

[@cscscc2273]

Make sure there is no water under the concrete slabs for the milling machines foundations especially for the large gantry machine as this will cause machine vibrations onto the milling jobs when machining. If there is water underneath the concrete slab, holes have to be drilled to suck the water out and inject special cement to stop the concrete slab vibrations.

[@jonathanjenkins8630]

I've watched the first 18 minutes so far. This is the best video yet. Beautifully shot and edited, and with a great soundtrack. Looking forward to the rest, and hope future videos are up to this standard!

[@cptairwolf]

Incredible to see this dream aircraft slowly become a reality.

[@gusvorster6889]

I can not wait to see it fly. Absolutely stunning.

[@bloodragefromnorway]

great host, and the camera person when viewing machines did a fantastic job! instead of focusing on only his face, u actually do span around and show the machine as well having the host in the middle, exelent! hope more start doing that!

[@cliffnelson4645]

Dying to see it fly!!!!

[@PetrusShikongo-d6d]

A very nice looking helicopter and of course a great presentation of the assembly plant. I just have a question regarding the display units layout. Any reason why you chose a different display layout? I’m referring to the altimeter, VSI, airspeed indicator etc. in comparison to the displays currently on the market.

[@evmatt]

Love this and living in Stafford can’t wait to see one over the skyline.

[@65peterbilt]

cheers from across the pond ,canton MA. Love when a new video comes out because they are loaded with clear and professionally done and in depth no bullshit 1like how everything is made in house i see great things within this co. And a great future cannot wait until the first flite.

[@leonardodearaujo1828]

Hill is a great inspiration for anyone, they coming from nothing, but one huge desire to build a dream to offer the simple way to have your own fly machine that provides, high technology.

[@justinsearle4461]

Another exciting update!

[@harezy]

Looking really good. Good to see rapid professional growth. She will be in the air flying soon 👍👍👍👍

[@AC-jk8wq]

Fantastic presentation! 😃

[@Imagineering100]

Wow someone has put a lot of time and money into this well-done wow.

[@gubergurgubergsson6553]

Best information's yet.

[@Sturmbock71]

I wish all the best to HILL, but just remember Kopter in the beginning wanted to revolutionize the helicopter industry too...... Developing the Engine, Airframe and Avionics at the same time.... Its very brave (when you have a lot of money) or very stupid (when you dont have a lot of money)

[@nevillecreativitymentor]

WOW , inspiring . I have been following your growth and am amazed and awestruck. In India we have a saying "Choti moo badee baath" literally translated to "small mouth big talk", so forgive me .... becuase I dream of setting up a Drone Design and Development company here in India and want to be global .... my qestion is silly ... "How do you attract such talent and AFFORD all this forward movement !!" Is the answer as simple as "MONEY!" and its done !!!? I AM AMAZED.

[@abvmoose87]

How much will the camera system add in costs? good ones can be quite pricey. How does the rules with vfr even work in night conditions with use w camera that isnt certified?

[@abvmoose87]

How many parts have the main fuselage now been split into?

[@JMoods82]

How do we start the progress to get a license and fly these in Australia please?

[@juliussmith4001]

BRAVO!!

[@amundmoe100]

Hi , great update ! I am a EMS pilot, got out of flight school in 1989 so I was wondering if you can tell us a little about the pilot input on your project ? Do you guys have test pilots and if so ,what is their back ground ? Have they ACTUALLY worked for a living LOL , outside the military ? Looking forward to the next update 🙂 Amund Moe Lead pilot Bayflite 3 , Tampa

[@lewkohl]

are you saying military pilots aren’t working? That would not be accurate.

[@abvmoose87]

Theyre developing a uncerted experimental type first but are planning on making a certified variant later down the line

[@abvmoose87]

@33:16 I cant believe they didnt think of this sooner. Sounds like an ideal use for oled instead of lcd. Didnt your finnish partner that designs the hud ever talk to you about this? I always wondered how this works myself in the aviation field and as i understand it its not so much about producing screens with very high peak brightness as it is the use of some kind of filter that i guess they laminate on the screen which eliminates glare totally and makes it readable even when directly sunlit

[@justinsearle4461]

The passthrough has been in the plans since before they started selling prototypes. He spoke about it on the first call I attended in 2020. They just hadn’t gotten yo its development until now. OLED is still not a viable candidate for aviation due to its decreased brightness compared to LED and its tendency to burn-in with infrequent on-screen UI elements. But I would LOVE the high contrast of OLED in the future when it becomes more viable. QD-OLED is there in brightless at almost 2000 nits in certain modes and Apple’s new dual layer OLED is borderline bright enough yet since it is barely hitting 1000 nits, but both still have the burn-in issue that is plaguing laptops even with more variable UI elements than the Hill UI.

[@abvmoose87]

A bit dissapointed to hear about the changes of the fuselage. If i understand correctly the main fuselage was cast as one giant part but now have been split into parts before they get fused together.

[@AACBrit]

Nope - it's the tooling for that design which is changing, not the structural concept itself. It's still a monocoque design/one-piece fuselage, it's just how they produce it that will change.

[@BenC20B]

I know they aren’t the finished product but those main rotor blades look very stiff compared to other helicopters in production

[@stevestjames3934]

GFC 600H Garmin - this seems to be the benchmark for flight assistance - will HX50 have comparable tech ? - Also Garmin have auto land on their fixed wing products and are probably not that far away in getting that for the 600H - if Hill can pull off auto land by the time it’s ready for certification you will have a product to compare with Joby and Horizon who will become the benchmark rather than legacy helicopters

[@dawnfreedom2024]

ok, you just miss me... the pilot.. ;) I would love to be part of this...

[@f1b1777]

I still have not seen it in the AIR ?

[@rowshambow]

Any flight videos

[@abvmoose87]

Very cool

[@scottpaulson1714]

How will the US deliveries of the Helicopters happen?

[@2K9s]

The mayflower.

[@poordadadventures]

Do they actually have a flying helicopter yet? Or is it all prototype type mockup still?

[@abvmoose87]

I think its still mockups but theyre aiming of having one flying before the end of the year

[@Skidderoperator]

How does carbon fiber compare to aluminum airframes in a hard landing?

[@BenC20B]

Repairing damage is the issue with carbon fibre. It’s not like an alloy structure where you can rivet in a new panel or fabricate a patch. With a one piece construction you have to replace to whole structure. Patching isn’t normally considered a suitable repair.

[@Skidderoperator]

@@BenC20B These birds are for the extra wealthy.

[@supercat380]

DR HILL HAS JUST ALLOWED BRITAIN THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE A HELICOPTER AS INNOVATIVE AND ADVANCED AS THE LEGENDARY CONCORDE. I BELIEVE THAT DR HILL IS TODAY'S VERSION OF THE GREAT LOCKHEED DESIGNER KELLY JOHNSON!

[@pokepark4610]

guys a good salesman

[@Ronnie_B]

*20' container... (right?)

[@JTanSC]

damn that heli looks sick

[@furij_]

Please make time codes for such long videos.

[@HillHelicopters]

​@@furij_ Thank you for the suggestion. We usually do them but this time it took a little longer. You can access the chapters now. 👍

[@Fransky-p2g]

Iya HK50 .. !! Yeeeeeee!!! Saya dapat lagi . Terima kasih atas Pemberian Nya kepada Saya Selaku pribadi Pran 👑 Pollpran King of the king Dim. Iya saya terima kasih dan senang sekali Atas Syukur saya ,sana sini . terdapat peduli kasih Tuhan Illahi Nya . Ingat kan saya ,funggu saya langsung selaku Pribadi Diri untuk Menerima Pemberian helikopter nya . Oke !!. Sampai kita Bertemu nanti,salam saya Franki \ pram 👑 Pollpran King of the king Dim Baru \ Pran .Binti , Godfried Rosmince from Kalimantan Tengah Indonesia asia tenggara. Yeeeee!!! Tanks you 🎉. Inssper Gitar 🎸 Petualangan Music.

[@charlesreese1733]

I would love to help with sales here in the USA

[@jimbernard71]

Keep your PASSION alive- DON'T sell out to a large corporation🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@grilnam9945]

It’s all very well but can you turn it into a reboot of Airwolf?

[@CrispyOkra]

Who cares? Let's see it fly!

[@djd-vit1859]

Airwolf 2024

[@spuckjr4897]

Its funny when a group of people just choose do get something done.

[@davidhillberg7623]

still no evaluation of all in house components or parts to validate the quality assurances by testing. High load, dynamic bearings, gears, shafts and case testing jigs, fixtures, or test equipment seen, no test systems to validate airframe structures or dynamic components. no mention of process sheets or verification for manufacturing, design, or quality control system. composite engineering and lay up validation not mentioned, materials input processing to ensure raw stock homogeneous and specification compliance. (crashworthy) where is that facility? (fuel, structures, seats, flight controls, electrical, attachments) mathematical, computer, real life compliance for fatigue life components not spoken of, navigation lights are still in non compliant location. fuselage construction of the Windstar (1980-1995) was similar, yet was designed for easy changes to its structure, each design change would require separate testing for compatibility, seat crash testing would require out of house testing lab, inadvertent flight into IMC and those lights will be more problematic with fog, smog, clouds, and particulates. Engine testing? component testing? forward skid gear configuration will promote nose dig in in emergency landing. will the instruments be readable under adverse conditions? to concentrate a pilots gaze into those screens will invite mid airs and CFIT accidents. starter generator failure analysis, Gas producer wheel if it is one piece is guaranteed a major failure,

[@abvmoose87]

I mean it is an uncertified experimental build kit at the end of the day so I dont know how mich you can demand but for all the electronics and innovative digital instrument cluster it would be good with a quality rating on the pcb's for the finished type, they are still in dev kit versions at this stage

[@O-RoD]

Hill should releae a printable model of the HX50 so we can hold and look it over.

[@nightmisterio]

Time flies

[@milojenikolovski7522]

No Garmin... nice.

[@based_gigachad6094]

These guys should be running Boeing

[@AC-jk8wq]

Somebody should run Boeing…. It appears to be on AutoPilot…. And we all know how well the Boeing AP works! 😃

[@lukasethan6429]

Ignorant statement by someone who has no concept of aerospace.

[@based_gigachad6094]

@@lukasethan6429 wait, I’m confused, why did my comment trigger you? 😂

[@BenC20B]

It’s like saying your kids soccer coach should be coaching a major league team. It’s just a totally different game.

[@experimental_av]

So far they have shipped nothing. Maybe they have something truly revolutionary but until it’s out tried and tested with the customer everything is unknown.

[@DanFrederiksen]

Very interesting that you've done single piece fuselage, that's an idea I've had to get strength and save on finishing and not combining two sides. I would much rather make more molds to speed it up than depart that advantage. I've also considered zero tolerance metal molds polished to mirror finish so you get optical finish out of the box. No finishing at all. Regarding lighting, rather than multiple spotlights, can't it be done in a single unit? I would think a large enough LED surface or array combined with a single lens shape can give you whatever cone shape you want at almost whatever intensity you want because LEDs can be very powerful. Car high beams might be up to 3000lumen, the Imalent hand flashlight is 100k and is smaller than a VW beetle headlight. I imagine that 20k is plenty for the helicopter so should be possible with a quite small single optics emitter, maybe two elements in a single lens so you don't have a single point of failure. Maybe the lens can be the same piece of polycarb as the outer 'glass' such that it's not a spotlight behind a protective cover but one piece. Simplification, optimization. Regarding the cockpit displays, in this video you lean forward quite substantially to engage with it. I get that that gives a sense of space in the cockpit but it undermines the utility of the displays. It's a classic design choice in aviation to get the instrumentation at a distance as these loyal subjects to the king, behold the vast domain I command but that's a substantial mistake. As a test try placing them half the distance from your head. same visual top line. The moment the display is your only view to the world it's simply a big mistake to keep it at that small a field of view. Try marking that size of field of view on the canopy glass and black out everything else. Just imagine how igloo a view that would be. Don't think of them as two round dials in a 1970s car. The thinking should be more like a VR headset. Not that it should be strapped to the head but in zero visibility it is your view to the world and abstracting on a view through a toilet roll (which many aviation designs impose without realizing it) is just not good cognitive ergonomics. Having a general level of disdain for convention is healthy and the justification for that can be seen in that even the very latest of airliners like the A350 have no synthetic vision or any other vision in zero visibility. Even brand new 500m$ planes fly blind by numbers and very recently an airliner was scraping tree tops in New York until the tower warned about low altitude. Seconds from crashing. I believe there was a second incident recently as well. And many helicopters have crashed because they fly blind. I see aviation get worked up in procedures and complexity and entirely miss obviously beneficial things. The helicopter Kobe Bryant died in was a perfectly certified extremely expensive helicopter, maintained at extreme cost according to all the bureaucracy, a pilot with all the elaborate certifications, flying elaborate detours to accommodate ATC rules yet a 500$ synthetic vision display so they could actually see something and had saved their lives was not a requirement anywhere. All that bureaucracy in the name of safety and they allow it to fly blind.

[@jjw1126]

As long as his helicopters are more reliable than that vehicle he drives it should be ok. 😂

[@usercantbeblank]

Doing everything except producing planes

[@W3KW]

What took so long for this to happen?

[@HongyaMa]

Paul Muller? Paul Muller?

[@MosesHill-xw5ye]

I AM MOSES HILL HAVE YOU ALL FORGOT ABOUT ME?

[@nantatech3563]

its electric helicopter?

[@ToxicxNoctus]

How hard would it be to get the HX50 IFR compliant? Any thoughts on de-ice blades?

[@wheater5]

For the U.K. it would need a second engine.

[@SR72_LOCKHEED]

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