Originally Posted by
Geoffersincornwall
........fully automated auto hover - I seem to remember having that in my Sea King in 1970 and if you leave out the aux hover trim then my Wessex 3 had full-auto hover in 1969 and was around a while before that.
G.
I think the Wx HAS1 had a vaguely reliable system before that, but certainly the HAS3/Newmark Mk30 AFCS was front line in 1967: about the time we started at BRNC, Geoff!
I'm not sure when Bristow started FLIR SAR ops, but the NSCA (Vic) had civil FLIR use somewhere around 1982-83, IIRC.......