Pumas flying with only one engine fitted?
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From: Oman
Pumas flying with only one engine fitted?
Heard yonks ago that the Portuguese/Egyptians/Indonesians (Add nationality to taste) had only one donk with a concrete block on't other side as ballast. Is this an urban myth or spoof?
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You mean the story about the request to the RAF, from the Portugese, for the loan of a spare engine? So they could make it twin engined to fly the Pope?
Never heard it.......
Never heard it.......
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From: Liverpool based Geordie, so calm down, calm down kidda!!
I know an ex-AAC pilot who joined the RAF, starting one engine and failing to get the second started. He completed his task on one engine...... or was that a rumour also....
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Bit like the OH-6 Pilot in Vietnam who had one blade shot up on the ground decided to remove its oppo and then flew out on just two blades.
Maybe the same guy graduated onto Puma's?
Maybe the same guy graduated onto Puma's?
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Robbo Jock, A taxi Driver in Southampton was recently denied the renewal of his taxi Driver's permit because his spelling in the English language was not very good. I wonder if your relations work for the Southampton Council.
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Mmmmmmm ....
What we did used to do in Pumas on Loooooooong Ferry flights is "Idle" one donk (or if you were brave/silly enough shut it down) to improve the sfc for increased endurance ...perhaps this is what is being alluded too ????
What we did used to do in Pumas on Loooooooong Ferry flights is "Idle" one donk (or if you were brave/silly enough shut it down) to improve the sfc for increased endurance ...perhaps this is what is being alluded too ????
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From: An Irish dude in Houston, TX. I miss home!!!
I think you'll find it's "that's" 
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spinwing, if you idle one engine your sfc is far worse than on 2 engines. The only option if you are short of fuel is to shut it down (pref climb to a height at which you would have time to restart it in auto!)
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I concur that idling one engine for extra endurance is false logic. All the fuel into the idling engine goes to waste running the compressor and accessories and certainly with a Turmo that's a lot of fuel wasted, especially as the alternators run off the MGB anyway. 
Single engined flight can be more efficient, certainly for endurance but possibly not for a transit, subject to the prevailing wind (the reduced max IAS results in a longer airborne time).
Single engined flight can be more efficient, certainly for endurance but possibly not for a transit, subject to the prevailing wind (the reduced max IAS results in a longer airborne time).
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Many years ago a Bond BO 105 lost an engine while engaged on lighthouse work and ended up marooned on the helideck. The crew of one pilot and one engineer gutted the aircraft of everything it was possible to remove and flew off single engined.
Raised a lot of eyebrows and questions were asked in the house but it worked.
Raised a lot of eyebrows and questions were asked in the house but it worked.
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Once had to ferry a Puma single engine from Caye Chapel, Belize back to Airport camp. Of course, we needed to get the AOC's permission to do it. But that was very easy as he was one of those marooned on the island.
It never officially came out in the wash but every RAF pilot, SH and Harrier, was at the barbeque on the island so everyone was stuck there. The Bona mates (all of them) had arrived at the party by speedboat but the steering gear broke as they tried to leave and the boat would only go round in circles. They were authorised for a lift back in the Puma but then one of the engines wouldn't start....
We came back in the dark with a two engined one and everyone got home eventually.
It never officially came out in the wash but every RAF pilot, SH and Harrier, was at the barbeque on the island so everyone was stuck there. The Bona mates (all of them) had arrived at the party by speedboat but the steering gear broke as they tried to leave and the boat would only go round in circles. They were authorised for a lift back in the Puma but then one of the engines wouldn't start....
We came back in the dark with a two engined one and everyone got home eventually.
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A taxi Driver in Southampton was recently denied the renewal of his taxi Driver's permit because his spelling in the English language was not very good. I wonder if your relations work for the Southampton Council.
you may all have spoken to him as well.
It seems he got his job by suitably responding to the question, Now saah, please compose a sentence with the words green, pink and yellow in it?
The rest, you should know.