Shy Torque
You are right about the mod but the Salamanca crash wasn’t the reason. The Puma was entering the civilian world and Group A performance requires the rotor to be deliberately drooped to 240 Rrpm on a single engined climb away after engine failure so the alternators have to stay on line. The Super Puma has a low Rrpm warning at 240 so you pull until it sounds and hold that to 500 ft. It wouldn’t have made any difference to Rog Whitely as the take off profile was totally different. I didn’t see him very much at Odiham but I did when he was an AEO on 90 Squadron. Nice chap, bloody shame.