Originally Posted by
Shawn Coyle
If there is a performance improvement it would be slightly difficult to prove it - a lot of hover performance testing needed.
From what I remember (84 seems so far away) the Commando improvement was driven by the inability to carry reasonable sling loads between the ships headed towards the Falklands. In the demo in Yeovil, back to back tetsing showed a SIGNIFICANT increase in payload capability!
interesting side note. The RN had no way to send drawings to the fleet (or at least that's what I heard), so the Westland guys designed a set of telexes to describe the installation -- sent them to Yeovilton for a crew to try out, then drove over there to see if the installation matched their intent - a couple of iterations later the mod was telexed to the fleet!
Or at least that's what I heard
