Global Wellbeing

☮️  I have been a helicopter lover since childhood & dreamed of having flying magic carpets. I quickly realized that to fly in 🚁 you have to be extremely wealthy or at least a really wealthy VIP, but then you are more likely to be flown than to fly yourself unless you are a selected few.  So interest turned to light and ultralight helicopters.  I traveled and flew in light helicopter, met pilots and helicopter instructors and licensed mechanics. Then constantly built up & honed skills. Searched for helicopters that would make us happy. It was much more difficult than I have imagined.  None of the available designs were suitable, either too delicate, with a poor engine, or expensive to purchase or maintain.  Couldn’t find a helicopter that was interesting, so began to make plans to build a helicopter without the flaws described.  Université Paris-Saclay and ESTACA were where got schooled and built a family of the best experts around the #world, now ...

At the AERO exhibition in Friedrichshafen a new* helicopter was officially unveiled - the tesi HUAM. HUAM is an acronym of Helicopter Urban Air Mobility.   The chief designer of the helicopter is Mr Mauro Piazzoli, who was a pioneer in Italy for modifying a rotorway helicopter into a turbine engine (1). Later was one of the key persons behind the AvioTecnica company which used to manufacture a ES 101 Raven helicopter (2). Later he was a chief designer responsible for the Helitek KRONO 102 (which is the same airframe as this one, but different engine) and now holds a role of a chief design engineer of the tesi’s HUAM project. The helicopter is a two seater, with side-by-side cabin layout, with two-bladed semi-rigid main rotor and two-bladed semi-rigid tail rotor. At the first look you may see some resemblance with the Rotorway style of helicopter and based on the past experience of its designer, this is understandable. However, upon closer investigation, you will find that apart fro...