PUMA out of Gas?

[The Helpful Stacker]

How do you refuel one helicopter from another?? Would it have been with 200L drums and hand pump?

Well the first time I had to do an aircraft-to-aircraft refuel it involved a couple of Westland's finest acrobatic pizza delivery vehicles in a field not too far from XMG.

One of them had stayed away from the services of those fine upstanding men of TSW a little too long and the other was the donor aircraft, which carried two of those, as mentioned, upstanding chaps, a Deutz 150gpm pump and two lengths of 2 1/2" SR hose with suitable couplings for the task in-hand.

Some rather embarrassed smurfs were back to the relative safety of the skies and then R850 after a surprisingly quick turn around.

[Dan Gerous]

Heli refuelling question.

There is a picture in the latest issue of Airforces Monthly, of the Falklands SeaKing on a rescue mission, taking on fuel from a Navy ship while in flight. It is at the stern of the ship, but there appears to be a fairly big Heli deck on the ship and what appears to be 2 hangers on it as well. Why would they re-fuel in flight when there is a landing space?

[Spurlash2]

Haven't seen the picture, but I would guess that the SK pilot was not deck landing qualified.

The HIFR (Helicopter In-Flight Refuel) is a far safer option.

[oscardog177]

Maybe it was a Hifr training sortie?

[Tourist]

"The HIFR (Helicopter In-Flight Refuel) is a far safer option."

[LEFTI]

When it comes to poor weather, I'm sure we've all heard...

Slow down, go down, turn around and land on.

As for the Daily Propaganda...

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!