Originally Posted by
pba_target
Hey all,
There I was, bored on boxing day watching Jack Ryan on Prime (average, but not terrible) and I saw a helicopter I didn't recognise (moderately unusual). See attached - what looks like a skidded single with a fenestron - to my eye looks like a cross between a dauphin and a squirrel, but what do I know? Anyone point me at it?
Aerospatiale SA360. I first flew in one in 1974 leaving Farnborough Airshow to Battersea 👍
Originally Posted by
Thud_and_Blunder
Doesn't look as weird as the Dauphin with a tail-wheel undercarriage, like HKGFS flew back in the early 80s though
Weird? The tailwheel AS365C ‘Daphne’ was our routine Air 490/PolAir 1 for Victoria Police in the 1980s, later supplemented by two more in about mid/late 80s IIRC.