"Although they squeezed a bit of extra power out by water methanol injection it was still an awful lot less power than other contenders have generated,like the "Hi Speed" Dauphin with newer blade Technology or the Boeing 360 ditto,neither of which got even close."
Interesting fact though, the Dauphin holds the 3km course speed record at only 15 knots slower than the Lynx record.
Also, the Gems in G-LYNX were Gem 60s, which were not only bigger than the Gem 2s in the standard AH1, but were cleared to operate at max contingency power (OEI) for the run, plus the water injection. Thats a jump from 750shp from each burner on a stock AH1 at MCP to 1577shp each on the hot Gem 60s. More power than adding 2 more engines.
The Dauphin record was set with the Arriels pushing 820shp each. The lynx had almost twice the power. Dauphins aren't THAT much lighter than a stripped out, slicked up lynx, are they?
-Mike
P.S. in response to the original thread, I've only lost sight of the ground a handful of times looking straight down from the back seat of a UH-60, and dust has gotten pretty soupy before. Give it a few seconds and you'll start seeing the ground up front too. One of the dust landing techniques the Army teaches these days is to hover down slowly from a decent altitude -- works great on loose dust that goes away, but in use we can do the same thing on a confined LZ, as we get a cone of relatively clear air straight down the center.
Last edited by TwinHueyMan; 9th Mar 2007 at 18:55.