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Robinson R-22 helicopter exposed in UK Weston Super Mare museum

London - Has been considered as the most successful helicopter in the last 20 years

The most successful light helicopter of the 1980's-1990's, the Robinson R22 has joined the world's most successful helicopter museum situated at Weston super Mare in England. Designed and developed by American aerospace engineer Frank Robinson, who has been interviewed by Avionews in the last HeliExpo exhibition in 2002 in Orlando, the R22 immediately met a demand from thousands of private pilots...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 24407
Rome, Italy, 03/01/2002 10:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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