dmanton300, ZH844:
Before you go trash talking, you might want to read a bit more carefully. If you look at this post:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpos...&postcount=571
you will see that it contains the following:
y 2008 on the UK's Royal Air Force fleet of AW101 Merlin Mk.3A helicopters. The BERP IV program commenced in 2000 with a technology selection and integration phase leading to the design and manufacturing phase in 2002. The blades first flew in September 2006 and have now completed a 13 month flight test programme during which the AW101 was flown at speeds up to 198 knots and at altitudes of 13,000 ft.
Now if you go read Nick's post (carefully this time), you will see that it contains the following:
At 198 knots, they must have been feeding the engines dynamite, or have been in the proverbial "shallow dive".
Nowhere does Nick's post suggest that they were doing 198 knots while refueling.