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Best demo of downwash I ever saw was when the captain of a dead BO 105 was admiring the sight of an SA365C on approach with a maintenance team. The downwash from the 365 lifted our hero off his feet and into the safety catch net surrounding the helideck, next stop would have been 70 feet down into the North sea. Bet he never stood there again.
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'fraid no data, just listening out when walking the dog !!
- although it was a topic for discussion here 0n 15th Oct 2001 where "noise footprint" was discussed in detail
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...ighlight=NOISE
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'fraid no data, just listening out when walking the dog !!
- although it was a topic for discussion here 0n 15th Oct 2001 where "noise footprint" was discussed in detail
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...ighlight=NOISE
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I had great pleasure in being allowed to Marshall the EH101 at Helitech 3 years ago, and much to the amusement of my colleagues and the aircrew, I learnt what an incredible Downwash that heli has. I was blown 20 feet across the Tarmac into a double skinned and propped security fence, four lengths of which went over with me.
I then had even greater pleasure the following year at Farnborough International 2000, when the same aircraft took out just as much fencing, two press photographers, a local constable and two cars parked in the wrong place, despite having given the display management a warning of the ferocity of the Downwash at a planning meeting.
What a monster !
I then had even greater pleasure the following year at Farnborough International 2000, when the same aircraft took out just as much fencing, two press photographers, a local constable and two cars parked in the wrong place, despite having given the display management a warning of the ferocity of the Downwash at a planning meeting.
What a monster !
