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Old 17th December 2011 | 12:18
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tottigol
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If Magellan is a 412 replacement, everyone in the offshore industry will be waiting to see if Bell have eliminated the Achilles Heel of this helicopter and one that is the bane of HLO's world-wide - that with a full load of passengers, it has to be loaded and unloaded from both sides.

Oh, and here we were thinking that its weak points were the sllloooooow speed, i fuel burn rate and small payload, not to mention its notoriously delicate C Box.
I guess after 3000 hours on it I had it all wrong.
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