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Old 13th Nov 2004, 09:27
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rjsquirrel
 
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TOO bad Sultan uses helicopters with 2 million flight hours from which to draw his illogical conclusions! How many Bells crashed in the last 20 years, Sultan? They are still safe, because the number of flight hours it takes to make those crashes is very very high, showing that the aircraft are basically safe (otherwise you wouldn't sell them, would you?) Demonstrated accident rate that is the concern, not warstories you can remember. Wanna talk about main rotor separation, or VRS?

The EH-101's safety record to date is 5 Class A accidents in 55,000 hours

EH-101 has an accident rate of 11 per 100,000 hours, which makes it the WORST helicopter in operation on the planet, and about 11 times worse than the Bell helicopters Sultan builds, and about 15 times worse than the typical US Military multi-engined helicopter. The only worse rotorcraft is the V-22!

FYI, Sultan, I heard from a Marine that a high ranking Marine flew the 92 demonstrator at MGW, pulled back an engine on takeoff, flew around for a while, then landed without any ground roll, and said to the plot, "What the hell do I need 3 engines for?"
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