Originally Posted by
Brian Abraham
...having a propriety interest by way of having had two of the operations (Esso - S-76C) now four (that I know of) blow em up engine failures with the Turbomeca....A discussion of peoples experience with the Turbomeca would be of interest.
Not just with the 1S1 engine in that op Brian, I distinctly remember seeing an Allison C30 spectacularly disintegrating on an S76A at Longford as well. I don't think they salvaged any bits off it either, it just got trashed in the scrap bin