**Century's new factory virtual tour**

[Century Heli]

Welcome to Century Helicopter Product's new factory. We have been in the process of building this factory to ensure our customers continue to receive affordable prices and high quality helicopters and related items for years to come. Let's begin.

On the left resides the offices and manufacturing. To the right are the dormitories provided for the employees.

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Here we have the break room, various cubicles, meeting room, and various managers' offices. These are on the second level.

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Much like any R&D room, this area is messy.

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Here is the start of the manufacturing floor. This is one of the plastic injection molding machines.

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Lots of tooling for plastic injection molds. These tools are heavy so a crane must be used to move and manuever the tools into place during tool changes.

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[Century Heli]

Various CNC mills and lathes.

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Swift frames are one of the items that come out of the injection molding machines.

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More plastic parts

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What are your plastic parts made of?

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DuPont Zytel plastic pellets on the left, final product Swift blade grip on the right.

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CNC Lathe, making feathering shafts.

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Aluminum blocks waiting to be cut into Predator headblocks.

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Machined plates waiting to be machined into arms.

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Right is the piece before the final machining process, the left is the part that's left over.

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New metal blade grip arms.

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[Century Heli]

Another CNC mill.

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Anyone need a tail rotor hub?

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This is the machine that makes the tail rotor hubs.

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More CNC machines.

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Machined parts midway through processes.

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Jigs for making multiple parts in one run.

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Pre-finished swashplates

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Cutting bits, drill bits, tapping bits, etc... for the machines.

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Main shafts from the CNC lathe.

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Making some test mufflers.

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Gasser mufflers being polished and ready for shipment.

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Various assembly line photos. This is on the third level.

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Machine operators:

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More assembly line photos:

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[Century Heli]

An OEM product being made:

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Final product ready for assembly and shipping:

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Security guard:

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Kits ready for shipment:

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(Video) Plastic injection molding machine making swashplate bushings. (http://www.centuryhelimedia.com/videos/factory/Century_InjectionMolding.wmv)

(Video) CNC mill making the new Gasser braces. (http://www.centuryhelimedia.com/videos/factory/Century_CNC_Mill.wmv)

(Video) CNC lathe making main shafts. (http://www.centuryhelimedia.com/videos/factory/Century_CNC_Lathe.wmv)

[WillJames]

HOLY Geez Man, those are COOL photos. Thanks for sharing!! It is amazing what it takes to make a heli. WOW!!

[TJRIDE]

Cool photos indeed, Glad to see some of my swift parts I buy often.

TJ
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[Tom Fiddler]

Very nice Peter!!
You need a haircut though!! :lol:

[Motions]

Looking forward to seeing the scale fuses back on the web site soon. Glad you got all moved in.

[DebianDog]

That is one proud, serious security guard!

Thanks for the pictures!

[Jeff Reed]

A large abundance of predator parts I hope!! :D :D :D

[Rodney]

Molding parts, Been there done that. I hope you pay well. Sitting by those machines all night long is boring. Worked machine were when the mold opened we had to insert metal parts then close it and wait for it to open again. If you had to pee better have good kidneys as if you left the door open to long here comes the boss and you better have a good answer as to why. LOL
Great photos and movies, Im sure this will bring a whole new thought into everyones eyes as to waht is involved in makeing these fun machines.

[Tim Tompkins]

I hope my new Carbon Swift is in there somewhere. TimT

[RAV50]

Tim,

I was told by a very reliable scource that the Swift 550E's and the Predators are expected by the end of February :-)) :D

[Rodney]

Swift might make it dont think Preds will be here then.

[MarkD]

See that girl cutting the flashings of off the moulded parts - do that day in day out and you can now understand why every now and then the kits come with wrong/badly fitted parts

No dissrespect to the workers but every now and then your going to say ****it - that's good to go

To me the whole place is almost slave labour with the added advantage of the workers can live across the car park in small boxes

[HeliDan]

WOW!! I gotta go to their store soon, only 30-40 miles away from me.......

[Rodney]

Mark I have done that same thing working for Mercury Marine. And yes after a few hundred thousand plastic parts pass thru your hands it does happen.

[truman]

that factory is set up very nice if you treat those workers well not only money wise but make them an important part of the process and realize they are what make you the money then you will make an excelent product for years to come and maby if some of your workers fly some of your helis they will understand why it is important to make a good quality part everyone likes to be part of a winning team!

[R-4-L]

These photos DO NOT impress me one bit.

I recently ordered a Condor, from the supposed to be the new factory.

not only I got MISSING parts? not only I got wrongly machined parts? (Quality check seems to be missing from this "NEW" factory) worse of this all is the fact that customer service is TERRIBLE, I send an email with all these enquires with the subject "URGENT regarding missing/wrong parts" and no replies whatsoever for 3 weeks now.

Where Heli-World.com is their official dealers:
I call them and they say, we need to divert your call to "Antonio" but he's busy.

work on you customer service, this is what matters the most.

they seem to rely on this Antonio guy for everything and he's no help at all he doesn't read the email, he just copies and pasts policies to whatever enquiry sent to him.

I will not recommend Century and will never buy from them again. A friend told me this would happen but I didn't listen. I deserve this. :arggg: