Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2 - DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht | Aviation Photo #1053819

DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

REG: D-HMUF

Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2

MSN: 7105

Grosshabersdorf [OFF AIRPORT]

Germany - July 28, 2005

Timo Breidenstein
896 Germany

86.9K Views
DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

REG: D-HMUF

Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2

MSN: 7105

Herzogenaurach (EDQH)

Germany - May 17, 2006

Joachim Lippl
1.2K Germany

72.2K Views
DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

REG: D-HMUF

Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2

MSN: 7105

Grosshabersdorf [OFF AIRPORT]

Germany - July 28, 2005

Timo Breidenstein
896 Germany

14.1K Views
DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

REG: D-HTTT

Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2

MSN: 7246

Stuttgart (- Echterdingen) (STR / EDDS)

Germany - December 22, 2006

Benny Bartels
341 Germany

13.7K Views
DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

REG: D-HEOE

Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2

MSN: 7247

Nuremberg (NUE / EDDN)

Germany - April 6, 2006

H. Meier
1.9K Germany

12.9K Views
DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

REG: D-HMUF

Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2

MSN: 7105

Nuremberg (NUE / EDDN)

Germany - August 4, 2005

Timo Breidenstein
896 Germany

11.6K Views

Comments (34)

Anonymous

15 years ago

Mowing the grass with the back rotor blade? T.B.

Can some one explain what that external mounted arm like thing is used for?

Nice Photo. What happened? Did the tail hit the deck? Surely not?

Thanks for explaining what is going on, photographer!

That arm looks a lot like a winch. Looks like a great capture, helo pilots have the most fun IMO.

What the heck is that contraption on the side of the helicopter? If you had provided more description of the shot, I would have rated it higher.

Well, a complete stab in the dark, but I'm guessing that because of winch and the medivac-looking logo on the side, it might possibly be used to winch people up? ;)

It's a rescue Hilo. The pole is to lift or drop people. It seems to me the chopper is doing an emergency landing training (autorotation)... Can the photographer confirm? Great chopper by the way !

That external arm is a whinch I think.
great shot

I think the arm on the ouside is a winch used to haul up people in a basket. Also did the rotor hit the ground??? From that extreme angle of landing it looks like it did...

Great timing. The arm is a wench for pulling up rescue baskets. Correct me if im wrong :).

The external arm is used for lifting people up and down on rescue missions such as evacuations etc.
Seems to be an ex-airforce heli-pilot..

Very nice shot! Tail must be very close to ground... The "external mounted arm" is the winch!

Nothing hit the ground! checkout this, the photo was taken one second before.... http://new.helionline.net/photogallery/6/40/14505//2.html

Nice shot!
The arm like thing is a winch, which is used for rescue missions in the mountains (or what you call mountains in Franconia ;-) )

Perfect Helicopter and shoot. This "arm" is the rescue hoist.

To the UK's visitor:
That external mounted arm is used to leave down a steel wire attached to a hook and so that lifting something from the ground (or the opposite, from the helicopter to the ground).
Well, I'm sorry for my English but I hope you understant it.

I'm not sure, but I think the external mounted arm might be some sort of winch or something??? Hope that helps clear up the confusion...:-)

Nice! What is the Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht? I am guessing something like air ambulance?

From the look of that angle of attack that tail rotor should be somewhere underground.

Maybe it was his turn to cut the grass with that tail rotor of his!!

Interesting angle/moment. Btw anyone else want to clarify what the arm is? :-P Has nobody seen a rescue heli before?!!

Was the pilot practising auto rotations? I've seen R22's do it and a Bell 407, they touchdown and slide. Much in the fashion of the heli in this photo.. I don't know how close you were, but if this is an auto and the photo wasn't taken with a telephoto lens.. then 5 stars for not running the other way..

GREAT PIC the arm is a rescue winch as an A.M.E (Aircraft.Mantenince.Enginner) i have seen sevral of these.

Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht (DRF) is the german national air-rescue and ambulance service. It's a private organisation running most of the helis and jets in Germany together with national automobile club "ADAC" and a private foundation "Björn Steiger Stiftung"

That's right!! It's a kind of winch!! (I could be more specif if I knew this name. :-> Sorry for being confuse. Tks.

Yes, the correct translation for 'Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht' is 'German Air Rescue Service'.

Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht = German rescue flight watch

i think thats right :)

Nice picture, Now if you could rearange the reg just ia little it would spell D-HUMF. But since the F looks sorta like a P..

I know, it's childish.

German rescue flight watch--a basic translation of Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

Its a NOTAR as shown on the tailboom. No tail rotar.

Taking some revenge from the patient in the back?

13 years ago

That tailboom ain't thick enough to be a 'NOTAR' - it actually read 'NOTARZT' - german for emergency doc.

12 years ago

Huh? the BK117 has never had a NOTAR and probably never will

Aviation Photo #1053819 Eurocopter-Kawasaki BK-117B-2 - DRF - Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht

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