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Old 5th Mar 2017, 13:52
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Thud_and_Blunder
 
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I'm with Rotate-too-late on this one. Only have time on the Army Lynx, mostly Mk1 and briefly Mk7; never knew an aircraft so poorly designed for its main task.

Lookout while low flying was like sitting inside a house and peering through the letterbox. Unable to hover for more than 5 minutes per sortie with OAT >30 deg C (hyd limitation), in fact unable to hover with 2 up, half fuel and 8 empty TOW tubes on a summer's day.

Most serious occurrence I've ever had in any a/c was in a Lynx transitting at 4000' through Brize airspace. Vibration started, PAN declared and by the time I'd put her down at Brize the whole airframe was shaking violently. Main gearbox on its way out.

Kudos to the AAC pilots who made a relative success out of such a heap of poo, and of course to the RN small-ship flights who did so well with it.
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