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"F*** Me, it's a Lynx!!! "
with a WG30 tail..... |
With the same tail they used for the speed record. In about 1982...
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"It might look like a Duck (with the exception of the distinctive tailplane which provides the pilot with improved stability) and fly like a Duck, but......" |
It seems a lightweight version is being planned for UKSF and will this impact on the Puma upgrade?
U.K. Special Forces To Use Wildcat Variant - Defense News |
The Mk9A will still be the 'soup dragon@:)
Do they mean that 657 will get Wildcat (no surprise) or that 8 flt will get their own? |
8 Flt has recently got brand new NSRWs so they won't be getting Wildcat.
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Perhaps 815 HQ will get a few more.
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They could have spent a third less, got the capability they wanted, and called it the "Black Hawk". Dubious contracts, what, who.........retired with how much at the expense of our soldiers lives, no that would be treason.
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And done that 20years ago...
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Duck
If it looks like a duck ,quacks like a duck and swims like a duck. It is a f---ing duck. Substitute duck for Lynx/Wildcat, Same AFCS, same MRGB, same TRDS system, same MRH & blades. This is a "New helicopter on the cheap" based on the proven reliability of its predecessor. Full confidence in this then.
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Sorry, not the same MRGB, different inputs to AFCS! MRH and blades proven although new ones in development......
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This is a "New helicopter on the cheap" |
PMSL, IT'S A LYNX [but different enough to charge ££££££ wonga!]
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Latest update regarding Wildcat
Compare the sorties flown to those of the Russian aircraft carrier's Northern Fleet (NF) warships – aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and large ASW ship Admiral Chabanenko – are pursuing a northern course to continue cruise through the North Atlantic towards home base. Prior to that, the ships have replenished supplies from auxiliary vessels in the Moray Firth. Underway through the Atlantic, crews of the Russian Navy's carrier group will continue improving naval skills in severe conditions of cyclonically active northern latitudes. In favorable weather conditions, aircrews plan to proceed with training flights of deck-based fighters Su-33 and helicopters Ka-27. Through the deployment started on Dec 6, 2011, pilots of the carrier group have performed about 350 sorties and acquired wide flight experience in different climatic zones and latitudes. Helicopter pilots have carried out 84 flights (out of over 200 sorties) in the night time. As for now, aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has covered over 12,000 nautical miles. The carrier group is expected to call at NF main base Severomorsk by the end of the next week, said NF Press Secretary Capt 1 rank Vadim Serga. |
For that, Wildcat needed to go at sea. It enjoyed two ten-day periods of trials aboard Iron Duke, one in mid-January, the second at the beginning of this month, ranging from the waters off the South Coast to the Western Approaches, Irish Sea and northern shores of Scotland as the frigate searched for suitable weather conditions to lay down the limits for safe Wildcat operations. In all Wildcat touched down on Iron Duke’s flight deck 390 times, including 148 night landings – 76 of them using night vision goggles. mandatory extra characters |
I thought the Wildcat was a WW2 Fighter..
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Greenknight.
Hmmmm? |
From the link posted by Glojo:
Prototype ZZ402 paid a brief visit to Iron Duke just before Christmas, when pilots and technicians tested some of the basics – could the flight deck recovery system pull Wildcat into the hangar (yes it could), did Wildcat fit in the hangar (ditto)... I thought the Wildcat was a WW2 Fighter |
The trial referred to was the PSIT before the SHOL work. This allows basic safety and integration activities to be completed alongside first - for example, moving the a/c from the flight deck to and from the hangar. The fact that Wildcat did actually fit in the hangar was not a surprise.
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You've never been on some T23s trying to get Merlin in the hangar have you?
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