Rudolf von Bahr, Aerial Taxi

[kolibri282]

Here's a little present for all gyro nuts: unbelievable colour footage of Rolf von Bahr flying an aerial taxi service in a ski resort.
Merry Christmas to ye all, and have fun!
http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot/994352940-autogyro-unusual-occupations-winter-holidays-jerry-fairbanks

 

[XXavier]

Excellent color video, and quite surprising... Color film was rare and expensive by 1946, when food was rationed everywhere in Europe, even in Sweden...

 

[Gyro_Kai]

Fantastisch,

Merry Christmas, Fröhliche Weihnachten to you all,

Kai.

 

[Arnie Madsen]

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Love the gyro on skis !!!! .... not to mention the girls in swimsuits and pointy bras from the 1940's ... haaaa

 

[Vance]

Thank you Juergen! I like that a lot.

 

[FRANK'S]

What a strong Gyro you guys saw how many people was on board wow. I want that.
and a tracker too and pre-rotator in the 1940's make us look like cavemen.


P.s. Flying windmill I found that funny.

 

[XXavier]

What a strong Gyro you guys saw how many people was on board wow. I want that.
and a tracker too and pre-rotator in the 1940's make us look like cavemen.


P.s. Flying windmill I found that funny.

140hp, MTOW 862 kg. And flying high, well-loaded...

I'm sure that, if the C30 could be built today, at a reasonable price, it would find many buyers. Some airplanes of the 30s are still being built in small numbers in our days, like the Bücker Jungmann, both by small companies and by amateurs. My hangar-neighbours, a couple of enthusiasts, use to fly a Jungmann and are now building a Bücker Jungmeister.

I know of no one building a C30 anywhere. And it can't be too difficult...

 

[Kolibri]

Vielen Dank, Jürgen, das war ganz toll!

 

[scandtours]

I had the pleasure meeting Rolf in Stockholm, Sweden, for many years ago.
I try to find the thread where Rolf told me his whole life with gyros and how the Germans shot him down into the sea. I was driving with him 6 hours from Stockholm to south Sweden for the annual gyro fly..inn and did not realize how quickly the time passed when we had arrived there. I was just listening ....

http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=461214#post461214

 

[kolibri282]

The original aircraft in this film seems to be still alive though not kicking:
http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com/cierva/cierva.htm

 

[JAL]

I like to "wink wink" say no more comments about how he loves the job when he is off loading the two hot babes by lifting them out.

 

[WaspAir]

I had no idea there was such a precursor to "heli-skiing", but I like it.
I saw the ladies being handed skis when they arrived, but I didn't see the skiis stashed on the aircraft; did anybody catch a detail about how the skis were transported up the hill?

 

[kolibri282]

von Bahr at what seems to me to be installing a new engine, which is still partly wrapped, or while assembling his machine.
https://www.alamyimages.fr/autogiro-devant-aeroplanorama-r-von-bahr-lors-du-deballage-du-moteur-27-mars-1962-pays-bas-agence-de-presse-du-xxe-siecle-photo-nouvelles-a-retenir-documentaire-photographie-historique-1945-1990-histoires-visuelles-l-histoire-humaine-du-xxe-siecle-immortaliser-des-moments-dans-le-temps-image429029449.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=0CBAC779-BA6C-45C3-9E5E-567F9A69F2B0&p=1615195&n=13&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo=bar&st=0&sortby=2&qt=autogiro&qt_raw=autogiro&qn=&lic=3&edrf=0&mr=0&pr=0&aoa=1&creative=&videos=&nu=&ccc=&bespoke=&apalib=&ag=0&hc=0&et=0x000000000000000000000&vp=0&loc=0&ot=0&imgt=0&dtfr=&dtto=&size=0xFF&blackwhite=&cutout=&archive=1&name=&groupid=&pseudoid=&userid=&id=&a=&xstx=0&cbstore=0&resultview=sortbyPopular&lightbox=&gname=&gtype=&apalic=&tbar=1&pc=&simid=&cap=1&vd=0&cid=&pe=&so=&lb=&pl=0&plno=&fi=0&langcode=fr&ispremium=1&flip=0&contributorqt=&plgalleryno=&plpublic=0&viewaspublic=0&isplcurate=0&imageurl=&saveQry=&editorial=1&t=0&customgeoip=&filters=0

High resolution picture of SE-AEA in her glory days: