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Old 21st Nov 2007, 15:39
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3D CAM
 
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Crab.
Only military crews have the range to go out into the Atlantic?? Hmm... down south maybe but not sure Stornoway would agree with you there, even with the S61!
Take your point about the standby hoist but your Wasteland hoist is obviously more reliable than the Goodrich one. We have been more than thankful for the dual fit at least twice. One would have involved a thirty mile hover taxi back to base, with the winchman performing cpr, on a casualty, in a stretcher, on a bloody awful night!! He was well chuffed for the dual hoist, the heave ho would have been impossible!!
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