Arrandcee - unfortunately the costs of retooling to produce a few Sea Kings would be uneconomic and the airframe itself would have to be greatly altered to comply with modern airworthiness standards. In order to cater for the largest market possible, modern helicopters tend to be 'jack of all trades' rather than role specific and, other than the US military, no one customer has the clout or budget to create a competition to produce a SAR specific helo - even if they did it would not be suitable for all SAR roles.
Vie - not really a surprise since their arguments were just based on slagging us off and telling us how good they used to be
Hurray!!! got to page 40
