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Old 21st January 2008 | 19:55
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Attila
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Puma Rollover

As Fred Fri stated, when taxying the S61, the cyclic was laterally stable.

When taxying the 332, the cyclic was used in the turns, as was the collective. This was following the rollover incident in Aberdeen, when Aerospat pointed out a CofG graph to Bristows.

Mike Betts spent a happy(?) morning doing handbrake turns on the dispersal exploring the envelope (I believe is the correct term) whilst taxying around.

Furthermore, Bristow had another incident in Scatsta around October '06 when a 332 was blown over whilst being towed back into the shed.

Can't remember the Captains' name of the 332 which rolled over, but the P2 remembers getting a boot in the face as the P1 exited the aircraft!!
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