Originally Posted by
Bengo
Red tail white body items next to the WE 177 trolley are smoke and flame floats. Very occasionally loaded to a light series carrier. More often just hand launched through the top of the personnel door or out of the main door.
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I confess I have never heard of launching the smoke floats from the upper stair door! We never opened thing in flight plus launching an object from there would (almost) guarantee a please explain for the damage to the port sponson.
For a very short while we experimented with removing the top hatch to see if it would help in the heat of the tropics (826NAS in 1971) but it was soon replaced when hot exhaust was brought into the cabin whilst in the hover for ASW
