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Old 18th Oct 2012, 07:44
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Bravo73
 
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I did read what he said, 212. And it appears that he was just trying to score some anti-Sikorsky points (yet again).

But he is also as poorly informed as that other 'expert', Jim Ferguson. The emlub system might have been working as designed but it wasn't designed to deal with a failure of this type. The major issue here was the failure of the main shaft - when the weld failed, it effectively sheared in two. No amount of glycol was going to stop the lower section thrashing the rest of the gearbox apart.
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