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Should the Air Corps be scrapped?

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  • #202
    OS119
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭OS119


    Maoltuile wrote: »
    This is a fairly cryptic remark. Care to elaborate?

    in 'another place', people who fly and maintain helicopters for a living say that the helicopter involved is a write-off, that the structure of the helicopter has been bent, and that pretty much every componant of the helicopter will have to be stripped down and inspected/replaced because of shock damage - you could make it fly again, in the same way you could make Buckingham Palace fly - if you pumped enough money into it.

    'heavy landing' and 'crash' are interpretive terms - aircrew make heavy landings, passengers are in crashes.


  • #203
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Japan, another island nation, will be replacing its aging fleet of Orions in the near future. My former boss in Japan, a five-ringer who 'owned' all the JMDF reconnaissance assets, and spent almost twenty-five years flying the P3 around the islands and out into the Pacific, China Sea and sea of Japan, was convinced of the efficacy of the aircraft - seen as a real threat by the Russians operating out of Sakhalin Island.

    tac


  • #204
    bluecode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    Modern helicopters are usually designed with survivability in mind like modern cars. You can be quite sure that the skids were designed to collapse in a certain way, it will be fitted with energy absorbing seats and no doubt the fuselage and fuel system will be crashworthy. None of this means the helicopter could be used again but the occupants will walk away and the helicopter itself will appear substantially complete. I'm sure a visit to the Europcopter website will confirm the above.

    So of course it can be disengenously described as a 'hard landing'. Looks better in the newspapers. Crash landing is more appropriate. That helicopter will never fly again. The same accident in an Alouette may not have been survivable.


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