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Lynx Wildcat
A number of years ago I spent a few months at Westlands on the Wildcat project, around the time of the first flight.
Just curious, how did it work out in service?
Just curious, how did it work out in service?
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I used to fly with one of its test pilots. His view was that it would be an excellent naval machine, but it’ll never be a Blackhawk on the battlefield, which is what he believed we should have bought all along.
I used to fly with one of its test pilots. His view was that it would be an excellent naval machine, but it’ll never be a Blackhawk on the battlefield, which is what he believed we should have bought all along.
tonker,
The Wildcat was never meant to carry out the role of the Blackhawk, and it is used by the AAC in a completely different role, so the comparison is meaningless. It is the RAF and not the AAC who provide the Army with its troop lift.
The Wildcat was never meant to carry out the role of the Blackhawk, and it is used by the AAC in a completely different role, so the comparison is meaningless. It is the RAF and not the AAC who provide the Army with its troop lift.
A little more info in this document but it is not from the "leading edge".
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Ahem.... didn't a certain squadron fit some puma tail rotor blades the wrong way round?
Re the Whirlwind photo - my first task on 84 Sqn in 1976; troop drills with the Swedish Contingent of UNFICYP on Larnaca salt lake. How on earth has THAT photo surfaced from the depths?
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Below the Glidepath - not correcting
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That's an interesting comment about a servicing error made 50 years ago by an organisation that has with few exceptions kept the Army Air Corps safe, serviceable, and successful. Using this doll, can you show the members of the jury where the REME Aircraft Technician touched you?
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The Sioux pilot called starting for airtest, but never got further than lifting to a low hover.
He phoned a short time later to apologise for not telling me he had shut down 'because he was a bit annoyed when he found REME had fitted the rotor blades upside down'.
I had no reason to disbelieve the pilot.
I was tower controller at Farnborough one day.
The Sioux pilot called starting for airtest, but never got further than lifting to a low hover.
He phoned a short time later to apologise for not telling me he had shut down 'because he was a bit annoyed when he found REME had fitted the rotor blades upside down'.
I had no reason to disbelieve the pilot.
The Sioux pilot called starting for airtest, but never got further than lifting to a low hover.
He phoned a short time later to apologise for not telling me he had shut down 'because he was a bit annoyed when he found REME had fitted the rotor blades upside down'.
I had no reason to disbelieve the pilot.
