From one climate extreme to the other.
This is in Applecross on the West Coast of Scotland. We had a brand new B212 which had taken over from the Wessex on the Navy support contract. In this incident the lockwasher locking the nut on "C" box output flange had not been properly installed and allowed the nut to back off. This allowed the flange to have excessive movement which very soon destroyed the output bearing. They landed at the Applecross base after getting chip light illuminated and that was as far as it was going. We managed to position the helicopter between two buildings and rigged up a work gantry to support a block and tackle. Then we had some of the worst winter weather in years. All good fun!!
"C" box change at Applecross.
On the left is Malcom Innes and on the right is John Neilson. Andy Crossland is kneeling pretty much out of sight.
Graeme