Originally Posted by
John Eacott
If you go to the point I mentioned they have two HRS-2s as a direct comparison with identical loading internally, then add 800lb underslung to the RoR machine. I can’t see how you’re coming to your conclusion?
If anything it would show that the modified machine is lifting 800lbs more plus the weight of the ROR equipment, but that’s stretching assumptions with the info available.
I have difficulty believing that a Whirlwind would be flown half a tonne overweight. I never flew the piston engined version but I did fly the HAR10; My notes tell me the MAUM of that version was 8,000lb; an increase of 1,000 lb would be miraculous. If this WAS the case, why was this equipment not universally fitted to all similar helicopters?