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HeliEng

8th Aug 2005 18:26

New Enstroms grounded?

Anyone have any further info?

Heard rumour of Ground Resonance/Dynamic Rollover????

goaround7

8th Aug 2005 19:02

...probably something to do with being too ugly to land or take off nicely.

Ned-Air2Air

8th Aug 2005 21:10

They may not be the nicest looking helicopter out there but credit where credit is due, I did a photo shoot out of a 480B and it was the smoothest camera platform I have ever used. :ok:

havoc

9th Aug 2005 02:28

Engstrom accident last Friday in US

Not sure if this was a new aircraft:

http://www.wndu.com/news/082005/news_43894.php

Gaseous

9th Aug 2005 20:24

Hmmm.

Maybe I'll stick with my hydraulic dampers intead of the new elastomerics until they are cleared by the investigators.

ppheli

10th Aug 2005 10:11

Three further photos, from different angles at this link http://www.etruth.com/News/Content.aspx?ID=353830&page=

Ian Corrigible

15th Aug 2005 17:04

Looks like they are: Enstrom orders 480B dampers removed.

I/C

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