This is a great video that starts with the advanced composite construction and follows many other aspects of equipping and operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...9iA&feature=youtu.be

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

They have a number of great technical videos.
After you watch that one, watch the cruise ship construction video.

Great video! I have always been impressed with them. Thanks for the post!!

I'll just leave this here. German narration, but doesn't need many words anyway.

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Great video. Our local medevac flies the EC135, an older model of the H145:

https://www.medforceair.com/

I get confused easily, but what is now Airbus Helicopters was started by Aerospatiale and then taken over by Eurocopter. Or something like that. Changing the model numbers for the same design does not help.

Yeah, Eurocopter was an amalgamation of mostly Aerospatiale (of Alouette, Gazelle, Ecureuil, Dauphin, [Super] Puma/Cougar fame) and MBB (BO 105, BK 117) eventually subsumed into Airbus. The H145 is basically an updated 117 with Aerospatiale's fenestron tail fan via the EC 135. They're pretty much the standard rescue helicopters here due to their good inner-city handling; not uncommon to see them touch down in a downtown road. In addition to the SOF support role seen in the previous videos, the Luftwaffe is also getting them for its contribution to the national air rescue network, replacing their ancient UH-1Ds; similar to what the US Army did with the UH-72 (which is the earlier EC 145, still without the fenestron).

The multiple renamings do nothing for brand recogition of course. But then I grew up when Hughes wasn't Boeing Helicopters, and Sikorsky wasn't a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.