Some interesting stuff there…. test pilots wearing parachutes in a Lynx, the Westland 3300 that didn’t seem to get anywhere, and who’d have thought blades were so full of what looked like packing foam!
Obviously they need to be cheap, but bike manufacturers are still doing the hand layup on inflatable mandrels in the main. I'm not sure how the bond the sections of the bike together. They're larger than just traditional metal tube sections, but still there isn't a 'whole bike' mandrel.
Fantastic footage, can see exactly where the modern AW139/149/189 family came from, along with the AW159/Wildcat.
"Never fly the 'A' model of anything!" A lynx is very much a wild cat😀
Some interesting stuff there…. test pilots wearing parachutes in a Lynx, the Westland 3300 that didn’t seem to get anywhere, and who’d have thought blades were so full of what looked like packing foam!
The BERP blade, MRGB and Automatic Flight Control System is still going strong today unlike that computer and the Gentlemans hair cut!
aaaaaawesome!
My favourite helicopter to fly in when I was mean in green
'Westland 3300 with new 5 blade rotorhead...' (at the end): do I see a Lynx morphing into the future EH-101 there?
Obviously they need to be cheap, but bike manufacturers are still doing the hand layup on inflatable mandrels in the main. I'm not sure how the bond the sections of the bike together. They're larger than just traditional metal tube sections, but still there isn't a 'whole bike' mandrel.
Cool