PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Airbus175M Video
View Single Post
Old 9th Jan 2023, 21:35
  #23 (permalink)  
helispotter
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Australia
Age: 58
Posts: 303
Received 41 Likes on 33 Posts
I am puzzled by the various posts regarding the helicopter seen in the footage. It is registered F-WMXB and https://www.helis.com/database/model/H175M/ has it as a H175M but with construction number still undefined.

#2 EESDL writes: "The H175M does not exist..."
#21 FloaterNorthWest writes: "It's the H175M prototype..."
#22 JulieAndrews writes: "It is a 175 with M painted in it..."

All of these statements could be mutually true, but it would be good to have a definitive statement about the identity of F-WMXB including its designation, construction number, how it differs from a regular 175 etc. I haven't searched the net to try to find more.

Blackhawk9 in #3 writes "bigger fiasco than the NH-90..." and while he followed up in #10, that doesn't really clarify why it will be a fiasco if selected. I always wonder if there are vested interests when statements are made that are not further explained. Given various troubled military helicopter acquisition programs around the world, I would also be interested to read views about which choice might be the "least fiasco" and robust reasoning for any such claims!

Last edited by helispotter; 10th Jan 2023 at 09:41.
helispotter is offline