Originally Posted by
Flytest
This post reminds me of my time in the Royal Navy, we actually took delivery of parachutes for Merlin crews, apparently due to loss of tail rotor drive in flight. The idea was that above a certain height, if something catastrophic happened, you stopped the main rotor and got the hell out.
Nobody actually cared about the ship, thats replaceable.
To the best of my knowledge, the system was never used.
I realise the above post is quite old (2004 or thereabouts). I wonder/hope if
Flytest is still about to cast some more light on this?
tucumseh and I recall some stuff involving Sea King AEW but this seems to be a similar question - possibly at the same time after the Westlands escape. I can't seem to PM
Flytest and they've not posted for ages.......
