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Old 16th Mar 2009, 22:17
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Only one pump failed (actually its drive failed) but, there being no check valves, it created a leak back to the sump so that the other pump could only muster about 5 psi or so into the gearbox, below the threshold for "land immediately" in the RFM at the time. In other words, there were 2 pumps but the failure of only one of them would bring the heli down. Good design!

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