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The Black Dragon
25th Aug 2011, 12:11
Will the Sikorsky S76_ _ now have a fighting chance to claw its way back into the market--- now that AW is has published this AD... :ok::ok::ok:....

Margins
25th Aug 2011, 13:24
Apologizes

212man
25th Aug 2011, 13:38
Thanks Margins for that helpful contribution, for some of us those facts aren't statistics - they're friends! :ugh::ugh:

The Black Dragon
25th Aug 2011, 13:39
& the others

The Black Dragon
25th Aug 2011, 16:04
OK this thread has got off on the wrong foot, All here on pprune have lost friends from flying various models of helicopters over the years.

Margins, I think what you were referring too was the S76a model that had some main blade failures in the early days of production.

I am wondering if some customers that jumped over to the AW139 may now go back to the "tried and tested" S76 for future orders.

rotorbrent
25th Aug 2011, 16:48
well

Yesterday they dumped thier 2009 AW-139's and we flew all day in the 1984 S-76A++ steam gauge Phase II's. With both having over 20,000 hours each on the airframes.

The Black Dragon
25th Aug 2011, 16:57
OUCH :eek: