Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Outstanding team-aerobatics sunset flight demonstration by 'Patrulla Aspa' at Festa al Cel 2019 airshow in Lleida-Alguaire's airport (Catalonia, Spain), filmed from a vantage point above the ground. :D
Patrulla Aspa is Spain's 'Ejército del Aire' (Airforce) helicopter aerobatic demonstration team. This is a very strange and unique formation in the entire world. There are some other helicopter teams like the russian 'Berkuts' but even they do not perform such aerobatics as this team pulls out in their flight displays.
Their home base is in Granada at Armilla's air base. The Team uses five Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) EC120B Colibri. The crew is formed by two pilots for each aircraft, which additionally are flight instructors at 'Ejército del Aire' helicopter flight school. Support crew accompanying the team is integrated by 14 individuals, 10 aircraft maintenance technicians, two photography and video specialists and another two PR people. Since August 2010th, they have their own website where their followers can keep up to date with their activities:
patrullaaspa.defensa.gob.es
The Eurocopter EC120B Colibri (Hummingbird) is a five-seat, single-engine, light utility multi-mission helicopter designed for safe, simple, and cost-effective operations. Jointly designed and developed by Eurocopter, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC), Harbin Aviation Industries (Group) Ltd (HAIG) and Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (STAero) at Eurocopter's France Marignane facility, the EC120B was assembled by Eurocopter in France and Australia.
The EC120B incorporates several of Eurocopter's trademarked technologies, such as the 3-bladed Speriflex main rotor head and the 8-bladed fenestron anti-torque tail rotor; these have been partially credited with contributing to the rotorcraft's noise signature, which is 6.7 decibels below International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) limits. Airbus Helicopters has claimed that the EC120 possesses the lowest operating cost in its class. As of 2014, the EC120 has the distinction of being the only single-engine rotorcraft to be certified to JAR/FAR 27 standards; measures incorporated to meet these standards include an energy-attenuating main structure, energy-absorbent seats for all on board, and a crash-resistant fuel system.
The aircraft features a wide, ergonomic cabin with high levels of external visibility, which can accommodate a single pilot along with four passengers in typical passenger configuration. The design of the cabin is suitable for a wide variety of civilian and parapublic missions, such as utility transport, offshore transport, training, law enforcement, casualty evacuation and corporate transport. In the casualty evacuation role, the rotorcraft can carry one pilot and one stretcher patient as well as one or two medical attendants. In a cargo-carrying capacity, the EC120 can carry one pilot plus 2.94 m3 of total useful load volume spread between the cabin and the hold, which is externally accessible from the right-hand side and to the rear, as well as from the cabin in some configurations. To ease cargo operations, the cabin floor is flat and unobstructed; alternatively, a cargo sling can be installed to carry cargo of up to 700 kg.
SPECIFICATIONS
Crew: 1-2
Capacity: 4 pax / 755 kg payload (700 kg max slung load)
Length: 11.52 m (9.6 m fuselage)
Height: 3.4 m
Empty weight: 960 kg
MTOW: 1715 kg internal load, 1800 kg w/ external load
Fuel capacity: 416 l
Powerplant: 1 × Turbomeca TM 319 Arrius 2F turboshaft,
- 376 kW for take-off
- 335 kW max continuous
Main rotor diameter: 10.0 m
Main rotor area: 78.54 m2
Cruise speed: 226 km/h max (191 km/h economy)
Never exceed speed: 278 km/h
Range: 727 km
Endurance: 4 hours 32 minutes
Service ceiling: 5180 m
Hover ceiling IGE: 2820 m
Hover ceiling OGE: 2320 m
Rate of climb: 6.1 m/s
Disk loading: 21.8 kg/m2 internal load (22.9 kg/m2 external load)
Power/mass: 0.19 kW/kg internal load (0.1835 kg external load)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_EC120_Colibri
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Outstanding team-aerobatics sunset flight demonstration by 'Patrulla Aspa' at Festa al Cel 2019 airshow in Lleida-Alguaire's airport (Catalonia, Spain), filmed from a vantage point above the ground. :D
Patrulla Aspa is Spain's 'Ejército del Aire' (Airforce) helicopter aerobatic demonstration team. This is a very strange and unique formation in the entire world. There are some other helicopter teams like the russian 'Berkuts' but even they do not perform such aerobatics as this team pulls out in their flight displays.
Their home base is in Granada at Armilla's air base. The Team uses five Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) EC120B Colibri. The crew is formed by two pilots for each aircraft, which additionally are flight instructors at 'Ejército del Aire' helicopter flight school. Support crew accompanying the team is integrated by 14 individuals, 10 aircraft maintenance technicians, two photography and video specialists and another two PR people. Since August 2010th, they have their own website where their followers can keep up to date with their activities:
patrullaaspa.defensa.gob.es
The Eurocopter EC120B Colibri (Hummingbird) is a five-seat, single-engine, light utility multi-mission helicopter designed for safe, simple, and cost-effective operations. Jointly designed and developed by Eurocopter, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC), Harbin Aviation Industries (Group) Ltd (HAIG) and Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (STAero) at Eurocopter's France Marignane facility, the EC120B was assembled by Eurocopter in France and Australia.
The EC120B incorporates several of Eurocopter's trademarked technologies, such as the 3-bladed Speriflex main rotor head and the 8-bladed fenestron anti-torque tail rotor; these have been partially credited with contributing to the rotorcraft's noise signature, which is 6.7 decibels below International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) limits. Airbus Helicopters has claimed that the EC120 possesses the lowest operating cost in its class. As of 2014, the EC120 has the distinction of being the only single-engine rotorcraft to be certified to JAR/FAR 27 standards; measures incorporated to meet these standards include an energy-attenuating main structure, energy-absorbent seats for all on board, and a crash-resistant fuel system.
The aircraft features a wide, ergonomic cabin with high levels of external visibility, which can accommodate a single pilot along with four passengers in typical passenger configuration. The design of the cabin is suitable for a wide variety of civilian and parapublic missions, such as utility transport, offshore transport, training, law enforcement, casualty evacuation and corporate transport. In the casualty evacuation role, the rotorcraft can carry one pilot and one stretcher patient as well as one or two medical attendants. In a cargo-carrying capacity, the EC120 can carry one pilot plus 2.94 m3 of total useful load volume spread between the cabin and the hold, which is externally accessible from the right-hand side and to the rear, as well as from the cabin in some configurations. To ease cargo operations, the cabin floor is flat and unobstructed; alternatively, a cargo sling can be installed to carry cargo of up to 700 kg.
SPECIFICATIONS
Crew: 1-2
Capacity: 4 pax / 755 kg payload (700 kg max slung load)
Length: 11.52 m (9.6 m fuselage)
Height: 3.4 m
Empty weight: 960 kg
MTOW: 1715 kg internal load, 1800 kg w/ external load
Fuel capacity: 416 l
Powerplant: 1 × Turbomeca TM 319 Arrius 2F turboshaft,
- 376 kW for take-off
- 335 kW max continuous
Main rotor diameter: 10.0 m
Main rotor area: 78.54 m2
Cruise speed: 226 km/h max (191 km/h economy)
Never exceed speed: 278 km/h
Range: 727 km
Endurance: 4 hours 32 minutes
Service ceiling: 5180 m
Hover ceiling IGE: 2820 m
Hover ceiling OGE: 2320 m
Rate of climb: 6.1 m/s
Disk loading: 21.8 kg/m2 internal load (22.9 kg/m2 external load)
Power/mass: 0.19 kW/kg internal load (0.1835 kg external load)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_EC120_Colibri
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youtube.com/RC4ever
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