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Old 31st Mar 2004, 19:28
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RichiePAO
 
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When I worked at Westlands in the late eighties/early nineties they were retailing at £50m for a copy - still thats inflation for you During its development it lost a couple of aircraft - I think it had a rather anoying habit of applying its rotor brake whilst in flight....My memory is a little vague but I seem to recall a crew of one prototype aircraft had to bail put, but sadly a second (I believe Italian) crew lost there lives due to this or a similar fault.
Still at the time I was involved with it a good aircraft, with a lot of potential, something I am sure the crews at Culdrose and Benson would go along with.
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