Originally Posted by
Rotor Kop
..And what about the Bell 407 that also had a number of fatalities and the speed was reduced?? Biased anti - robbie guys should rather open their own thread under the nursery school section....
It may help to be factually correct.
The early models experienced incidences of tail rotor strikes eventually believed to be a result of a combination of excessive pedal usage, speed etc.
The solution was a pedal stop relay which are fitted to all of the 407's.
VNE reduction was temporary and it operates today at the 140kts VNE that it was released with.
Bell didn't just blame their pilots, they engineered a solution to the problem.
It is also worth remembering that these issues were found on what was, then, a young aircraft (late 90's) compared to ongoing issues with a family of aircraft that were introduced in the late 70's, or early 90's for the 44.