Another UK mil aircraft grounding
 

A rumour brewing that a UK mil rotary fleet has been grounded.
Any guesses?
My money is on the Mk10, considering it’s previous tail rotor history….

Go on, I'll bite - what's the Mk10?

Golly! Not the Whirwind?!

The best clue is that there aren’t many Mk10 types out there!

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....41d274a4d1.jpg

Good God,I posted the F765A in March 1964,about my loss of t/rotor and g/box in a Mk10(WW)...I`m so glad ,given Cvd and `go very slow at the Post Office,that it has finally reached a `Gnome` working diligently in the lower depths of the`Inspectorate of Flight Safety`...wherever that is nowadays...
There is always hope that the other 2 F765`s ,somewhat later regarding engine failures over inhospitable terrain,will arrive in due course.....!!


DRUK,Thanks,flew it to`retirement`, 2Nov `81in Catterick...

I think I've cracked it.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b96230339a.jpg

Lynx? Sorry.....Wildcat. :E​​​​​​​

Not the Mark 10? And after all the Mark 9 shenanigans? Heads should roll, we're doomed I tell you.

Combat indicator that PPRuNE is full of people well out of the loop but still want to know about things they have zero influence or effect on them...

Maybe it cracked by itself :-)

Given the loss of a sort of Puma in Ukraine recently, I thought it might be 33 and 230 being stood down.
Old Duffer

Always preferred Gnomes in pairs - in the front of a Wessex!

Stamping your feet on the floor to get them to start…when cold ?

I’ll have a stab at it.

Hawk
Tutor
Wildcat

given the thread son Training and Air cadets sounds like the Tutor

Off to the logbooks ... and there she was - multi entries in late Summer '64 , part of the blissful experience of Thorney S&R ! :ok::ok::ok:
I have a couple of pics, similarly parked but with crew and spectators from a w/e 'Carnival' demo at Ventnor.
Truly, the best of the best !
(Oddly, set up for night flying with the Schermulys fitted ?)

ha - and there was me thinking PPRuNe was a rumour network?
The next time I’m looking for deep insight I might need to look elsewhere ;-)

ref Tutor grounding. What’s the reason this time - we had a couple of propellers fly off back in the day……

Possibly not the first two:

Have heard broken wing ribs being discovered as a reason, but don't know if it's gen.

I guess it must be the Mildcat……..

it’s gen. Tutor grounded. Hopefully airborne again soon pending Grob mitigation/monitoring eng shizzle.

So what's the "rotary Mk10" thing about. The OP sounds like one of those apocryphal Royal Mail stories where some punter this week gets a letter with a 5d stamp on it posted in 1967.

As has already been alluded to, anyone who suffered the Lynx Mk1, 7 and/or 9 sees the Mildcat as what it is - a Lynx Mk10. The name change for marketing purposes only fools those who either a) want to be fooled or b) don't do their research. Purely a means of keeping an Italian-owned factory in Zummerzet in business for a little longer... I suppose I ought to add "IMHO".

”Tailrotor Tuesday” anyone ?

There was a rumour that the re-naming was because calling it Lynx would mean it was within the scope of the original Anglo-French agreement!.

and the answer is? Bodes well for NMH

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