Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
Super F, when the floats are popped on a 76, the strut that holds open the flipper doors for the main gear gets severed, so the doors are free to flap (and stops them from puncturing the bags). Nobody would subsequently fly around with those doors flapping in the breeze. And anyway, there is no way to "suck up" the float bags once inflated. You have been duped.
Ascend Charlie, the only comments i made about seeing the video was where the heli crewman hoped out and walked to the people to be rescued, and then they went ahead and winched the kids up. It was someone else that said about floats popping in and out.
SF