[email protected] said in this thread:
"Only last week the Chivenor cab refuelled at Cork and went 250nm out to recover 2 burnt crew from the QE2 - it would be nice to see Irish SAR with a decent capability (I mean range not ability). However, even if the S-92 deal had gone through, from the figures quoted by Nick Lappos at the SARForce conference this year, they still wouldn't have had the legs to do that job.
Interestingly, a lot was made of the Irish contract as the first big sale of S-92 - now that it has fallen through, what is to be the sales pitch? Yellow Merlin with a 1000nm radius of action anyone?"
Dear crab;
If you must quote me, try to remember what I said, OK?
I have published the actual slide shown at the SAR conference, which shows that the S-92 can reach out to 350 nm raduis, and at 250 nm radius can rescue 20 people! With external fuel, the S-92 has more range than the EH-101.
I will gladly collect on the beer I think you owe me!
Perhaps you were at the OTHER sar conference, the one at Yoevil?
Here is the site:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/llappos/Image11.gif