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I think it was the FADEC that was the issue when the Intelligence Comunity flew into a hill in Scotland travelling back Ireland, thats why we became apprehensive of the project here in the UK
MoD knew of Chinook flaws before fatal crash, says father | UK news | The Guardian
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Didn't some of the Chinooks that were taken out of service in Canada
get rebuilt/refurbished and then sold onto another country?
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Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
Didn't some of the Chinooks that were taken out of service in
Canada
get sold ?
Possibly...
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I remember the first one that I ever saw on the ground, at the Naval dockyard at Sembawang(?) in Singapore in 1968 or 69 and had flown in from a US Navy carrier. It looked huge! And to think that we were still being ferried about in old Whirlwinds and the UK
'version' of the chinook, the belvedere............ Archaic or what!
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Did you ever fly in the Belvedere Helicopter, Peter? Bristol Belvedere - Wikipedia
I thought that it was made by Westland but according to Wikipedia it was made by Bristol.
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I think Bristol evolved in to Westland Helicopters along with a number of other manufacturers which probably means Westlands became the Eng Authority.
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I seem to recall that the one which is at Hendon being labeled up as being made by Westland? It's interesting to read that it has inter-rotating rotors, as does the Chinook.
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