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Old 20th Oct 2011, 10:16
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Originally Posted by John Eacott
An interesting photo of a Wessex HU5 in the hover, changing an oleo over the deck of Bulwark reportedly in 1972. What/why, anyone?
Could possibly be XS490 with Lt TMF Neil on 3 March 1972. Port u/c leg radius fractured. Oleo and arm replaced in the hover on Bulwark (Info from book "FAA Helicopters Since 1973"). But it was not an unusual occurrence - it happened again on Bulwark a few months later to XS498; port radius arm fractured on T/O off North Carolina on 31/1/73 and again all changed in the hover.
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