Well done chaps, especially Lu who got it right immediately.
I think folks at Agusta must have slapped each other on the back when the design of the EH 101 was agreed, in design and in name; the similarity is uncanny.
I heard that the Royal Navy wanted a sonar dunking aircraft and required a continued hover following an engine failure, so three engines it was, despite all the extra complication this caused.
Frelon means "Hornet"
(I now apologise for taking this thread well off the original subject, perhaps we should start a new topic).
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