another r22 blade has been found in northern queensland with a delamination of the doubler today. apparently there have been three cases reported in the states as well.
robinson has told this owner to send the blade back and they will look at repairing it.
slowrotor, i think the term you are looking for is debonding but who cares what we call it, it is a bad situation we are talking about, lots of down time and lots of money.
there are a lot of people relying on their machines staying in the air for a very big season and to have what seems to be an emerging problem confronting them can be a bit worrying to say the least.
this is now the fifth machine this year with well under a thousand hours, (two at under 300), to suffer from this problem and there has been no words of assurance or otherwise emanating from the powers that be.
two defect notices have been lodged with australia's civil aviation safety authority now. so we sit and wait. the first defect notice was lodged over 6 weeks ago and no word yet, the second one was a couple of days ago. we operate three robbies at the moment and don't need them sitting on the ground.