EzyUAV Flies -with ease in hovering inherent in th  back

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The end of the year 2007 has come and we would like to thank you for your continuous interest in our EzyCopter coaxial helicopters. Great progress has been made - the completion of our 180,000 sq/ft HeliDome R&D Center dedicated to the advancement of coaxial helicopters in Taichung, Taiwan; the launch of the EzyUAV (unmanned helicopter) equipped with a small turbine engine, with 3-in-1 flight control system. The turbine engine powered EzyUAV and a smal electric motor powered EzyBaby are in actual flight and experiencing the ease in flying and in hovering inherent in the Coaxial Design. In November, we had a public demonstration at the 2007 UAV Conference with both units performed, successfully, hovering and routine flying maneuvers under gusty and turbulent wind conditions. Both models will soon be offered for sale and orders will be taken via websites (EzyBaby will be handled exclusively by GyroScoop of France). We will be happy to welcome you at our HeliDome facility and to meet you in person and to show you our helicopters - including the new EzyCopter II prototype! We will, also, be pleased to answer all your questions regarding the EzyCopter family of coaxial helicopters. Do contact us anytime.

Best wishes from Taichung, Taiwan.

The EzyCopter Team
Sincerely yours,
Charles LIN
Tel: +886 939 928 719
Fax: +886 4 2463 9165

  Another CDS Shipped to New England USA  back

August 2007
Another CDS shipped to Chris Sedell in New England, USA

Mr. Christopher Sedell has been kind enough to allow us permission to release his name, address, and phone number after he received his CDS in August/September 2007. In October 2007 he was travelling in Europe and decided to pay a visit from his busy schedule to a German rotary engine manufacturer for discussion and purchase of rotary engines for his personal air vehicle. If you wish to contact Mr. Sedell, please let us know by email: ezycopter@mail.com.

  EzyCopter to Test with Rotary Engines  back

The EzyCopter development has been progressing well with first ten kits being committed and manufactured. Over the past several months various type engines have been tested resulting in some delays. We, now, have chosen an engine which has the best potential to give optimum performance. It is a Wankel type rotary engine - operates on four strokes and runs like a small turbine. It’s light weight, power output, and durability should make it, ideally suited, for Ezycopter operations. Developing a new tandem two seat coaxial helicopter requires considerable time and resources. Please bear with us for a while longer and keep in touch. It remains our commitment, here at Yoshine Helicopters, to make the EzyCopter an air vehicle "you will be proud to fly". Please go to FAQ section of this Website for more information about present day Rotary Engine advantages and other engine information.

  How You Will Fly - Flying Off the Drawing Board  back

Polular Mechanics Cover Story, July 2006

Since the dawn of avition, bold souls have been trying to do for planes what Henry Ford did for the automobile - make them widely accessible. But that vision always ran afoul of a hard reality: The technology just wasn’t there. No matter how you put them together, airplanes are just too difficult to fly and too expensive to build to quality as realistic mass transportation...(Isn’t this even more true for personal helicopters)...But finally, the day is drawing near when all the pieces come together and we reach that long elusive goal - the airplane for the everyman.
No one yet knows what this craft will look like, though some have already begun to make educated guesses. (Page 64 of the July 2006 PM Magazine "The Plane of the Future" from both amateur and professional aircraft designers.) The wait may not be all that long. Engineers at NASA and at major aerospace contractors, such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, have started putting pen to paper to determine how the future may play out.
A report prepared by NASA’s Langley Research Center recently assessed future demand for Personal Air Vehicles (PAVs). Such aircraft may be one way to cut the Gordian knot of ever-denser land traffic, the report concludes. As Americans travel more and more, it takes them longer and longer to get where they’re going. Over the next 20 years, highway speeds in Los Angeles are projected to drop by a third, from 33 to 22mph. While it won’t be practical for Angelenos to adandon the freeways for the skyways in order to get to work, PAVs could provide the means for those who would like to a day trip to Napa Valley.
In an ideal system, ordinary people will be able to climb into their own airplanes, take off from "small" airstrips, and fly anywhere from 100 to 500 miles at sppeds of up to 200 mph. Either the planes will fly themselves, or the task of piloting will be ...automated even a minimally trained person would be able to "master" it. Mass production could bring the cost down so much that millions of Americans could afford their own aircraft. Though the of fuel is still a wild card, the Langley study forecasts the price of a PAV will drop as low as $75,000 to $100,000.
"Remember when people talked about mass transportation systems based on remotely piloted cars?" says Frank Cappuccio, executive VP of Lockheed Martin’s advanced development programs office, Skunk Works. "We might skip that and go straight to planes." (or helicopters?)
PM concludes that it will be at least two decades before we’re going to see an exponential increase in our ability to more through the air.

- Excerpt from PM Magazine July issue, 2006. More on PAV at:
popularmechanics.com/futureaviation.

  Yoshine Helicopters Opens New Headquarters  back

The Yoshine Helicopter Company has completed work on its new headquarters in Taichung, Taiwan. At the official opening ceremony on Nov 13, 2006, the company president and CEO, Dr. Charles Lin greeted a host of dignitaries from government, private business, and the public at large and stated that this "state of the art" facility with its dome shaped construction will be the permanent home of the Yoshine personal VTOL air vehicle flagship vehicle, the EzyCopter. Named, "The Helidome", this facility, in addition to its modern capabilities will also become a development as well as a training center for new technologies to foster the growth of recreational flying on a global basis. Dr. Lin expressed his appreciation to the Engineers and Staff at the Yoshine Helicopters for their efforts and thanked all present for their wonderful support in help making this landmark headquarters facility a reality. More at....www.yoshine.com.tw

  HeliAsia 2004 (Oct 12~14, 2004) Bangkok, Thailand  back

September 20, 2004

Greetings,

Message from the Prime Minister of Thailand His Excellency, Thaksin Shinawatra:

I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to Shephard Conference and Exhibitions for holding Heli-Asia 2004 in Thailand. In 2004, this fifth biennial event will be a timely focus for the region!|s heightened interest in helicopters for both civil and military use. This, the fifth event in the series, bears witness to the confidence shown by the international community in Thailand as a focus for the region!|s high technology industries. Thailand has long recognized the potential of the helicopter in the saving of human life, the protection of sovereign territory, and the development of regional economies in a wide variety of roles from search and rescue to high-rise fire fighting to peacekeeping military operations. This exhibition will further all of those aims. I look forward to welcoming the exhibitors and participants to Thailand and to Heli-Asia 2004. I hope they will find time in their busy schedules to acquaint themselves with our country a little better and to nurture mutually beneficial business relationships.
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HeliAsia: Civil and Military Helicopter Event in the Asia-Pacific Region Conference & Exhibition, 12-14 October 2004, The Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand -
If you would like to learn more about helicopter industry in Asia, you can register online to HeliAsia 2004 to receive confirmation and instructions on attending the event as a visitor.
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EzyCopter will be in HeliAsia 2004
The EzyCopter represents the latest technology in coaxial design, has twin engines and four rotor blades. There is no tail rotor, thus virtually eliminating the torque problem normally associated with helicopter operation. The EzyCopter is safe and easy to fly, can be parked in one!|s garage (just like an automobile) and is very affordable costing no more than the average sports car.

The EzyCopter will be provided, on a limited basis in kits that are easy to assemble. Only 100 kits will be available, at a special price, in 2005, for those who wish to experience a truly "affordable" personal coaxial helicopter and have registered to purchase at our EzyCopter website.
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Meet the EzyCopter Team members
If you would be in Asia and visiting HeliAsia 2004, we invite you to visit with us at Booth #50 to meet members of our development team & pilot and learn more about how we are using the latest technologies in helping develop the "affordable" recreational helicopter industry.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

  EzyCopter Coaxial Helicopter UAV Flies  back

On January 24, 2005, at the home base of Yoshine Helicopters in Taichung, Taiwan, a most significant event in the evolution of the recreational helicopter industry occurred: World’s First Personal Coaxial Helicoper Lift Off! Charles Lin, Yoshine’s C.E.O. commented that this testing of the unmanned version of EzyCopter came off "without a glitch". Lin said further testing would be scheduled in coming weeks and that continued successes keeps us on the "glide path" of initiating first line production in 2005 as forecast. A larger production facility has been underway in Taichung since mid 2004 and is expected to be completed in time to handle production requirements. Yoshine officials are quick to note that in testing the EzyCopter coaxial UAV version several things could be accomplished. First and foremost, safety features of the aircraft could be more fully tested. Additionally, more complete computer generated records become readily available for complete and total flight data analysis. Perhaps, of equal importance, is that by testing the unmanned version, we are able to demonstrate the relative ease of piloting the EzyCopter as this is perhaps the first and only VTOL UAV that does not need any stabilizing gyro sensors as required by all other VTOL UAV or remote controlled helicopters. Lin concludes: We look, with great anticipation, to our next rounds of flight-testing, and will keep our investors; members of the EzyCopter l00 Club; and other interested parties well informed as to progress.

  Boeing Flying Car News (Oct 12, 2004) Seattle, USA  back

During a recent visit to Singapore for discussions on an OEM joint coaxial helicopter project, I was made aware of Boeing Aircraft’s work with NASA and their attempts to develop a "flying car" concept. Upon reviewing the pictures of their RC model in the Strait Times newspaper, I found a very close resemblance to our Yoshine EzyCopter recreational helicopter, as described below:

Fly out of traffic jam? Dream may come soon!

SEATTLE - It is a frustrated commuters escapist fantasy, literally lifting your car out of a clogged highway and soaring through the skies, landing just in time to motor into your driveway. Researchers say that the ultimate dream, an affordable, easy-to-use vehicle that lets people fly 322km to a meeting and also drive 24km to the mall is still probably decades away. But engineers at NASA, Boeing and elsewhere say the basis for a flying car is there. NASA’s first goal is to transform small-airplane travel. Right now, such airplanes are generally costly, uncomfortable and noisy, and require months of training and lost of money to operate. Within five years, researchers from NASA hope to develop technology for a small airplane that can fly out of regional airports, cost less than US$100,000 (S$172,000), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car. To make flying simpler, NASA is working on technologies that would automate more pilot functions. At Boeing in Seattle, researchers have created a miniature model of a sporty red helicopter/car hybrid that is helping the aerospace giant understand what it would take to make flying cars a reality. Boeing is especially interested in the broader problem of figuring out how to police the airways, and prevent total pandemonium, if thousands of flying cars enter the skies! Smaller companies are working on flying-car technology as well. California-based Moller International has already built a prototype of its Skycar. The streamlined vehicle, think sports car meets the hovercraft Luke Skywalker drove in Star Wars, is designed to make vertical takeoffs, fly 1,126km and drive short distances. Former Moller vice-president Jack Allison said that more than 100 people have put down a US$5,000 deposit for the car. -AP


NOTE: The EzyCopter represents the latest technology in coaxial design, has twin engines and four rotor blades. There is no tail rotor, thus virtually eliminating the torque problem normally associated with helicopter operation. The Ezycopter is safe and easy to fly, can be parked in one’s garage (just like an automobile) and is very affordable costing no more than the average sports car. The EzyCopter will be provided in kits that are easy to assemble. It will be available, on a limited basis at a special price, during 2005, for those who wish to experiment a true personal coaxial helicopter. The work by Boeing/NASA is welcomed news as it confirms our belief that the time has come to launch a "new stage" in the helicopter industry centered on the "coaxial" recreational helicopter.

  Dubai HeliShow (December 6~9, 2004) Dubai, U.A.E.  back

Dubai HeliShow 2004
6~9 December 2004
Dubai, U.A.E.
www.dubaihelishow.com

Yoshine Helicopters., a Taichung, Taiwan based company (Dubai HeliShow Booth #139) has introduced a new generation of coaxial personal helicopters dubbed the EzyCopter.

Personal helicopters have been dreamed of and envisioned since the sixteen century when Da Vinci first introduced a screw spiral-flying concept for a personal Vertical Take Off & Landing (VTOL) machine.

Now some 500 years the dream for personal VTOL flight is becoming reality. In addition to recreational flying, the EzyCopter will have wide spread use in agricultural, industrial, police as well as for military operations, for both manned and unmanned flying.

Charles Lin, founder and CEO, of Yoshine Helicopters, states that advances in technologies over the past 50 years have been consolidated and built into the EzyCopter structure, making possible this major breakthrough in personal helicopter development.

The EzyCopter is the world’s first coaxial helicopter with twin engines and four blades. The coaxial design is for torque-free precision flight and ease in control handling without tail rotors.

The twin engines are for noise reduction and added flight safety, while the four shorter blades enable and cause slower rotation intended for power savings and further noise reduction.

These distinctive features make the EzyCopter not just light in weight, but can be more easily assembled as more than 50% of the traditional parts required to build a conventional helicopter have been eliminated....no more anti-torque tail rotor that "robs" engine power and makes helicopter flying a difficult and dangerous task!

Flying a coaxial helicopter will be a very unique experience. One only has to learn to take off and land vertically by moving the collective stick up and down. To fly forward, backward, or side ways....by just moving the joystick in the direction you want to go.

This will be demonstrated by a remotely controlled micro-size coaxial UAV at the Yoshine Helicopter booth #139.

According to Yoshine’s C.E.O. Lin, the new coaxial EzyCopter will be the most affordable helicopter of its kind on the market. Lin believes the introduction of EzyCopter will lead to the creation of a new personal coaxial helicopter industry. Innovative marketing approaches like setting up Showrooms around the world will allow people to shop and purchase an EzyCopter in the same way they purchase an automobile. Easy and safely to fly! Affordable and easy to buy! Lin says that is the EzyCopter promise.

(Photos of the micro coaxail UAV can be seen at http://www.yoshine.com.tw/news.htm)

  Update Your Email Address 09/04  back

September 1, 2004
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EzyCopter - A Dream Turning Into Reality by Yoshine
We wish to thank you for your interest and support in the development of the world!|s most affordable personal helicopter. With coaxial design, twin rotors, twin engines, and four rotor blades, it is safe, affordable and easy to fly.

During the past year, many have contacted us with questions and issues concerning the EzyCopter. As we operate with limited staff support, we regret not being able to respond as quickly as we would have liked. Some of the most commonly asked questions are:
(1) Do you have any finished pictures of the EzyCopter?
(2) Do you anticipate further specifications and operating parameters?
(3) Have you developed a wholesale pricing structure?
(4) What will be the suggested retail price?
(5) When do you expect the EzyCopter to be available for delivery?
(6) What is the production capability of your firm? Units per month?
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EzyCopter - A torque free helicopter that is easy and safe to fly!
To avoid over-promising, as has been the case with some of the previous helicopter manufacturers, we have been very conservative about public pronouncements as to progress. Having said that, we are, obviously, very pleased with progress to date and pleased to announce we remain on a "glide path" that will lead to a first production run during the year 2005.

Our primary goal is to build a torque free helicopter that is easy and safe to fly. It has not been an easy task, but one that is nearing completion. In our next newsletter, we will present more facts relating to final stage development. Information pertaining to prototype testing results; production schedules; and pricing will be presented. Please stay tuned!

Sincerely yours,

Charles Lin, President
The EzyCopter Team
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email: yoshine@ezycopter.com
phone: +886 939 928 719
web: http://www.ezycopter.com
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  Robinson Dominates Heli Market 09/09/04  back

Robinson Dominates North American and the World Helicopter Market
Latest sales figures show that Robinson Helicopter Company continues to dominate the piston helicopter market, garnering 79 percent of sales in North America during the first half on 2004. Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) reports Robinson produced 343 aircraft—54 percent more than 2003—of the industry total 433 produced during this time. Producing at a rate of 15 helicopters per week, Robinson is close to eclipsing its record 2003 total of 422 aircraft. To meet the increased demand, the company increased total staff to 1,100 employees and is expanding into a 215,00 square foot factory, doubling total manufacturing floor space to 475,000 square feet. Robinson produces the R22 and R44 helicopters. For more information, visit www.robinsonheli.com.

  Servo Installed on EzyCopter 06/30/04  back

EzyCopter completes the CDS link with servo connection for testing the force needed, responding to a request for future VTOL UAV application. Servos used for Futaba RC: 1.5sec@1" Stroke@75lbs/2" stroke.

  Instant Flying 10/01/02  back

“Instant Flying” by Popular Mechanics, Oct 2002 Issue …For the first time, owing a ready-to-fly airplane ......will become as inexpensive as buying an SUV and as easy as getting a driver’s license....." More at www.popularmechanics.com/science “Inexpensive” to buy, “easy” & “safe” to fly are what the Yoshine EzyCopter is about!

  R22 sales exceeds 5000 helicopters 2003  back

Demand for Small Helicopters Keeps Rising! Robinson Delivers 5,000th Helicopter Robinson Helicopter Company delivered its 5,000th helicopter in September, an R44 Raven II shipped to National Airways Corporation (NAC), Lanseria, South Africa. Since delivering the first R22 in October 1979, Robinson has produced 3,489 R22s and 1,511 R44s, including 171 R44 Raven IIs. NAC, a Robinson dealership since 1990, company in South Africa. The recent delivery is NAC’s 75th Robinson helicopter. Robinson produces 9.5 helicopters a week, building toward an 11 helicopter-per-week goal by the end of this month. In response to increased product demand, the company recently broke ground on an additional 215,000 sq. ft. facility, which will nearly double its manufacturing capacity.

  EzyCopter Shines at Helitech (Sept 23~25, 2003) Ca  back

EzyCopter made news at Helitech 2003 on Sept 23~25, 2003 Hundreds, if not thousands of people, witnessed the compactness of the Ezycopter’s Main Drive System (gearbox, coaxial drive shafts, twin swash plates, twin rotors, and all its connected pitch and control links), displayed at corner of a small Helitech booth #1814, with its shipping suitcases right next to it. Somebody at the exhibition was startled at the resemblance as the Terminator arm in the movie and called it the Terminator I. Arnold Schwarzenegger would probably be pleased to learn his metal arm mechanism is surly rising "to be the world’s class personal VTOL flying machines". (more pictures at http://www.yoshine.com.tw/helitech_2003.htm)

  Yoshine Introduces EzyCopter 07/01/03  back

News For Immediate Release
Yoshine Helicopters Inc., has introduced a new generation of helicopter kit, the EzyCopter, intended for personal and pleasure flying as well as for educational, industrial, agricultural, military training, and as a tactical UAV platform. EzyCopter will be the world!|s first personal coaxial helicopter with twin engines and four blades ...twin engines for safety...four blades for great lift...and collective and cyclic controls for precise VTOL flight... EzyCopter is not only the leader of a new helicopter generation construction, it will also be ultralight in weight, easily and quickly assembled as there is NO tail rotor and more than half of the traditional helicopter parts have been eliminated...More over, the traditional difficulty in helicopter flight training will be completely changed since the inherent difficulty in mastering the anti-torque device has been totally eliminated. Everyone knows the tail rotor as a helicopter anti-torque device makes learning to fly a helicopter extremely difficult as it requires full concentration of the pilot and the complete coordination of all his or her hands and feet to master the horizontal torque to balance the helicopter...and then there are other feats to master before a pilot can take off for vertical flight... In fact, it is an amazing feat to learn to coordinate the dynamics of flying a helicopter... it has failed five times more would-be pilots as compared to learning to fly a fixed wing airplane...But with a coaxial helicopter, the flight scenario will be totally different... There is NO anti-torque device one has to learn to control. There is NO tail rotor one has to remember to apply foot pedal control.... With a coaxial helicopter, one only has to learn to take off and land vertically by moving the throttle stick up and down, and fly forward, backward, or side ways, by moving the cyclic joy stick in that direction... Now, flying a coaxial EzyCopter helicopter would be a breeze, easy...and fun.. But the real thrill is that assembling this coaxial helicopter would be a real educational event... Parts and components are made easy to assemble...more than half of the traditional helicopter parts are no longer needed...no tail rotor, no tail rotor shaft, no tail rotor gearbox, not tail rotor blades, in fact, the EzyCopter coaxial helicopter is totally without tail rotor and all its associated parts and components to assemble... And that means there is no more tail rotor related hazard and no tail rotor threat exists flying an EzyCopter! (the majority helicopter failure and hazard are tail rotor related..) And thanks to the advanced patented collective pitch and swashplate cyclic control design, the real beauty of EzyCopter helicopter lies in the ease and responsiveness for precision flight control... According to President and CEO, Mr. Charles Lin, the new EzyCopter helicopter will be very "affordable" with costs approximating that of an average sports automobile...making it quite appealing and affordable to worldwide education systems as a basic helicopter training and teaching tool....