I'm not sure Kevin Byrne would claim to be an "expert" in doors falling from helicopters but it is something he has witnessed in the past! And it wasn't an Air Corps heli either. He was the show announcer at the 2007 Salthill Airshow and witnessed the door falling from an RAF Merlin. I saw it too and yes, it does have the appearance of a sycamore seed slowly falling to the ground and so his description is reasonably accurate as to how it appears. What the actual rate of descent is,for a jettisoned door maybe Leonardo know, but I still wouldn't like to be hit by it.
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Last edited by 500 Fan; 26th May 2020 at 21:17.