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Old 3rd Jan 2011, 21:08
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dascanio - welcome. The thing with the S-92A, despite being hailed as a breakthrough in aviation safety by its makers, was NOT tested (at least successfully!) 'run-dry' as other modern helicopters.

If it had been, perhaps this thread would have died out by Easter 2009 with congratulations to the crew for just landing onshore in time instead of an autopsy on the deaths of 17 of the 18 POB.

The S-92A was tested with only a PARTIAL loss of lubrication ASSUMING that the leak could be stopped by isolating the oil cooler. Something that certain posters here were very reluctant to admit prior to the Cougar accident.

Sikorsky's flawed design logic was based, at their own admission, on the ASSUMPTION that a leak anywhere else from the oil cooler was 'extremely remote' (despite the fact it happened once BEFORE Cougar and on other types including the Sikorsky ones...).

This is covered extensively in this thread and I'm sure you will find the story here both fascinating and shocking.

212man

Technically is it not the case that the Phase 1 and Phase 2 'MGB' only differ in CASING design and the dynamics inside the casing are the same?

Are you really implying the gears are thrown away, irrespective of time since new, when changing casing?
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