# Best way to go about getting a helicopter flying license?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 28, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-go-about-getting-a-helicopter-flying-license/424345 "2007-10-28T17:28:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-go-about-getting-a-helicopter-flying-license/424345/21 "2007-11-05T14:56:16Z")

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[QUOTE=fisha]  
Does that still exist and is in use?  
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[MD Helicopters](http://www.mdhelicopters.com/products.php?cid=2)

Helicopter porn:

> **[MD Helicopters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Helicopters)**
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> MD Helicopters, LLC. (formerly McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems) is an American aerospace manufacturer. It produces light utility helicopters for commercial and military use. The company was a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft until 1984, when McDonnell Douglas acquired it and renamed it McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems. It later became MD Helicopters in 1999 after McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing.
> The company began in 1947 as a unit of Hughes Aircraft, then was part of the Hughes Tool C...

> **[Schweizer S300](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_300)**
>
> The Schweizer S300 series (formerly the Hughes 300, Schweizer 300, and Sikorsky S-300 series) is a family of light utility helicopters originally produced by Hughes Helicopters, as a development of the Hughes 269. Later manufactured by Schweizer Aircraft, and currently produced by Schweizer RSG, the basic design has been in production for over 60 years. The piston-powered S300 series features single three-bladed rotors; these helicopters tend to be used as a cost-effective platform for training a...

> **[Robinson R22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_R-22)**
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> The Robinson R22 is a two-seat, two-bladed, single-engined, light utility helicopter manufactured by Robinson Helicopter Company. It was designed in 1973 by Frank D. Robinson, and has been in production since 1979. The majority of flight testing was performed at Zamperini Field in Torrance, California. Flight testing and certification were performed in the late 1970s by test pilot Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn, and the R22 received FAA certification in March 1979.
> Due to relatively low acquisition...

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