Armed Forces Cyclone lost off Greece

[taxslave]

What are the facts?
We flew Sea Kings for something like 50 years. Over 550K flight hours.
We lost 14 aircraft and 8 people.
So far we have lost 6 people with the replacement at about 9,000 hours.
But please, keep the ignorant commentary coming. You are comic relief in tough times.

You have never flown anything bigger than a balsa plane with an elastic band for power.
When I worked at Comox the regulars would go hide behind a brick wall every time a Sea King came in.

 

[Hoid]

That's why the Sea King has always been the aircraft of choice for the POTUS.
If you knew anything about aircraft you would know why.
Safest most reliable helicopter ever designed.

 

[petros]

This is confusing now.
This is what comes of being too liberl with the ignore list

I have an ignore list too.

 

[Hoid]

That's why the Sea King has always been the aircraft of choice for the POTUS.
If you knew anything about aircraft you would know why.
Safest most reliable helicopter ever designed.

you get the idea

even though you and all the other cooks in Comox used to hide whenever a Sea King landed it happens to be the safest most reliable VTOL aircraft ever produced and as such has been the choice for Marine One for quite some time now.

 

[taxslave]

Some of those pictures are as old as e sea kings.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

That was a heck of a walk through history, Hoid.

Thank you.

 

[Jinentonix]

That's why the Sea King has always been the aircraft of choice for the POTUS.
If you knew anything about aircraft you would know why.
Safest most reliable helicopter ever designed.

And yet despite your idiotic bleating,it's being retired from the job. JUST like it was in Canada. And uh, the Sea King ISN'T ALWAYS the a/c of choice for the POTUS, he also flies in a VH-60N White Hawk.


BY the way, the Cyclones were a Liberal govt procurement. Look dude, I know you love the Sea King apparently, but it was a cost decision to replace it. Like I said, they were requiring up to a full days service for every hour of flight time. That's expensive and needlessly time consuming. By comparison, a relatively new civilian helicopter requires 3.5-4.5 hours of service for every hour of flight time. Military helicopters that aren't museum pieces take a bit longer, but not almost a friggin' day.

 

[Hoid]

That was a heck of a walk through history, Hoid.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

 

[Hoid]

Just bizarre news on CBC about the arrival of he body of the young lady killed in the crash arriving in Trenton, and all the details about how the casket will be handled and how 5 hats will be carried on five pillows for the unrecovered dead.

This is all in poor tatse.

Turning these things into media events and public celebrations is a particularity vulgar modern fad.

 

[Hoid]

Now the speculation is the there was a failure of the flight control system which bring into question the whole theory of fly by wire.

The Cyclone has no actual rigging. All controls are electronic.

 

[Hoid]

^I should add here that the question should be manned flight.

Man is not required to be in the vehicle and probably should not be there anymore.