I normally don’t want to get technic sets but if this was in the store today I would probably get it. It looks really cool.
@Maxbricks14 there’s like 5 sets called helicopter. They could have been more specific by calling it red and yellow helicopter.

Has anyone noticed how the European price is about half as much as the US price. Anyone know why?

@Miyakan said:
"Ah, this is better than two days ago.

Now, GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!"

I wonder if it can hold the old technic figures…

I know this is completely unrelated but, @huw , @capnrex101 when you go to search help then scroll down to advanced search, moment is spelled “mooment.” Is that intentional or is it a typo?

As the Technic sets progress part count seems to go crazy. 852 is 364 pieces, 8844 is 316 (even less than 852), this one is 1056 pieces and 42145 Airbus is 2001 pieces. I wonder if helicopters will get larger like the motorbikes. 42130 is massive compared to previous bikes.

Wasn't this the first helicopter to use those large blades?

Other than that I have no memory of this place.

EDIT: the only other one who uses those are 42052 (also black-tipped) and 42145 (yellow-tipped). So it was far less common than I thought.

This is the set I start collecting big helicopter. 9396 > 42052 > 42145

Not a fire helicopter, or a rescue helicopter or a Helicpter Attack! just...helicopter. Do we have sets that are just 'truck' or 'car' as well?

You can tell it's not a military craft by the fact it's red and yellow which together make orange

@ShilohCyan said:
"You can tell it's not a military craft by the fact it's red and yellow which together make orange"

That together with the grey inside makes for the colour scheme of the Osprey.

Anybody taken a look at the second model?
That's the goofiest thing I've ever seen, and I have no doubt it's based off a real vehicle, but I don't even have a clue what it would be called to get more information.

EDIT: It's a twin-rotor helicopter, and they are inefficient.

Maybe strange photo angle but unsure how the B model twin rotors do not collide? About the right number of pieces to keep the price within the teenager birthday present market. This can be motorised which is fun to watch, and the clutch allows you to switch between rotors or undercarriage up/down.

Loved this when I got it and I still think it is a great set. Looks good and had loads of functions for a very reasonable price.
Wasn’t too heavy so was ideal for playability, and it didn’t feel flimsy in any way.

I’ve recently been adding all my sets to the Lego Builder app and this set is the one Technic set I have that Lego don’t seem to have put instructions up for yet.
It’s been tweeking my ocd gene for a bit now :-)
I still have the box and manual but ya know…..

@ambr said:
"Maybe strange photo angle but unsure how the B model twin rotors do not collide? About the right number of pieces to keep the price within the teenager birthday present market. This can be motorised which is fun to watch, and the clutch allows you to switch between rotors or undercarriage up/down. "

The rotors turn in opposite directions and are synchronized so they can't collide.

SMDH hypocritical LEGO canceling the Osprey but not this - don’t they know that any helicopter is a military weapon if you angle the rotors downward and chop people up into little pieces while flying just a few feet off the ground?! /s

Not really a Technics guy (any more anyway...), I still say: this is good. Good part usage, looks like what it's suppose to be; and even look 'realistic' (in that it's rotor/body ratio looks right, good color per theme...)

A few years ago, a german model airplane club used some rc parts to make this thing actually fly, pretty cool imo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJULlmN_XWI

Man, I wish I could afford 42145 right now.

@MCLegoboy:
There's a critical failure point with helicopters, where, if they travel forward too fast, one side of the main rotor moves forward twice as fast as the aircraft, and the other side...stalls out because it's moving aft as fast as the hull is moving forward. When that happens, they tend to tip out of the air and crash. There's been a lot of interest in being able to achieve airplane speeds for fast-attack helicopters, and this twin-rotor design with a pusher prop was one proposed solution. If you consider only travel time, it would be an extremely efficient design.

Because one rotates CW while the other rotates CCW, there is always one blade section on each side of the aircraft that's moving forward. When hovering, all four blades provide equal lift. As it speeds up, lift decreases on the trailing blades, but increases on the advancing blades, so the twin rotor system actually provides constant stable lift on both sides.

@ambr:
The two rotor shafts are angled slightly outward, in a V shape. One rotor will be oriented fore/aft while the other is oriented port/starboard and angled over the shaft of the first rotor. As they rotate, the p/s one switches to f/a, and the f/a one switches to p/s. It's like a pair of two-toothed gears that never touch. At least, you hope they never do.

@Wrecknbuild said:
" @ShilohCyan said:
"You can tell it's not a military craft by the fact it's red and yellow which together make orange"

That together with the grey inside makes for the colour scheme of the Osprey."

The what? Sorry, I can't you over the sound of very inconsistent guidelines ( 7595) (75573)

@Endermen39 said:
"Has anyone noticed how the European price is about half as much as the US price. Anyone know why?"

No but did notice that the Australian price was better than the Canadian back then it's the other way with prices today.