Another exciting milestone: the completion of the first five conforming gears for the high-speed reduction gearbox.

High-Speed Reduction Gears Ready for Testing

Inspired by the elegance of a flying Aston Martin, these seats have undergone significant ergonomic refinements based on detailed trials and feedback. We've adjusted the curvature and lumbar support to ensure optimal comfort for all passengers.

Inspired by the elegance of a flying Aston Martin, these seats have undergone significant ergonomic refinements based on detailed trials and feedback.

Enhancing Comfort with Redesigned Seats

By being attuned to the market and listening to our customers from the very beginning, we took what was literally a sketch of our dream five-seat private helicopter, merely a concept, and turned it first into a wind tunnel model, then an engineering design, and finally an aircraft.

Recap October's HX50 Monthly Update & Ama

We're addressing previous concerns with the door design by overhauling the hinge geometry, locking mechanisms, and sealing systems to ensure a seamless and high-quality user experience.

Improvements to Doors & Seats

Our airframe team is working diligently to reduce weight and drag in the skid design, incorporating composite load-carrying members and a metallic cross-tube with wear plates for an optimal balance of lightweight, low-drag, and high performance.

Skid Optimisation and Firewall Integration

Our team has been perfecting the duplex nozzles using cutting-edge computational and experimental methods to ensure optimal atomization and combustion efficiency. These nozzles will soon undergo final qualification, ready to be integrated into the production combustion liner.

Our team has been perfecting the duplex nozzles using cutting-edge computational and experimental methods to ensure optimal atomization and combustion efficiency.

Fuel Nozzles and Module Development

In this video, we take you inside our newly established casting cell, show you the advanced processes and equipment that enable us to produce complex turbine components from super-alloys.

Turbine Blade Casting for GT50

In this video, we take you inside our testing process, where our starter generator is put through its paces from zero to 50,000 RPM. By using a third-party motor generator as a load, we can thoroughly evaluate the electrical hardware, advanced power electronics, and control algorithms.

Starter Generator Testing Begins at PC1

If you missed the live stream, don’t worry! You can watch the full recording here and stay informed about all the latest developments from Hill Helicopters.

Stay up to date with the latest HX50 Monthly Update & AMA, streamed live on October 16, 2024 from the new Hill Helicopters Production Centre One.

HX50 Monthly Update & AMA - October 16, 2024

“Finding Hill” is the intimate adventure story documenting the personal journey of Clint Pulver as he returns to the world of aviation to become a pilot of his own Hill HX50.

FINDING HILL EPISODE 5 | THE FIRST HILL HX50 ARRIVES IN AMERICA

Join us for an exciting update on the GT50 engine testing progress! Over the past month, we've achieved significant milestones, starting with the successful testing of the combustion efficiency.

GT50 Combustion Efficiency and System Updates

An update on the exciting progress on our customer reception area, designed to provide a welcoming space for visitors and customers. 

Building a Customer-Centric Facility

We've been hard at work constructing the infrastructure to build your helicopters. In this update, we showcase the progress on the mezzanine level, a crucial addition that creates a temperature-controlled environment necessary for producing precision metallic components for the GT50 and HX50.

Inside Production Centre 1

Our new gantry mill is now fully operational, marking the final piece in our suite of processes and technologies for complete end-to-end control of composite production. 

New Gantry Mill Operational

An in-depth look at the advanced lighting system of the HX50, designed to provide pilots with unparalleled situational awareness. 

HX50 Lighting System

This video highlights our efforts to optimise the internal packaging of the nose area, ensuring seamless integration of components such as the trim tank, high-performance nose light, retractable undercarriage, and flight control cable

HX50 Airframe Progress

Since the last AMA, Development Centres 1, 2, and 3 have been closed, and all the equipment plus the entire team have relocated to Production Centre 1.

This is a good time to reflect on how this all started and how far we have come. Only three years ago, a small team moved from a tiny, cramped office into a completely empty industrial unit that would become DC1.

Since the last AMA, Development Centres 1, 2 and 3 have been closed, and all the equipment plus the entire team have relocated to Production Centre 1.

Recap July’s HX50 Monthly Update & Ama

Over the past two weeks, we've focused on two critical areas: the development of fuel injection nozzles and atomisers, and the advancement of our casting processes for super-alloy turbine blades.

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High-Speed Reduction Gears Ready for Testing

Enhancing Comfort with Redesigned Seats

Recap October's HX50 Monthly Update & Ama

Improvements to Doors & Seats

Skid Optimisation and Firewall Integration

Fuel Nozzles and Module Development

Turbine Blade Casting for GT50

Starter Generator Testing Begins at PC1

HX50 Monthly Update & AMA - October 16, 2024

FINDING HILL EPISODE 5 | THE FIRST HILL HX50 ARRIVES IN AMERICA

GT50 Combustion Efficiency and System Updates

Building a Customer-Centric Facility

Inside Production Centre 1

New Gantry Mill Operational

HX50 Lighting System

HX50 Airframe Progress

Recap July’s HX50 Monthly Update & Ama

GT50 Engine : Turbine Blade Casting & Fuel Nozzle Update

FINDING HILL EPISODE 4 | THE HX50 UNVEIL

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