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We lost a Seaking recently because the engines were replaced with ones that were beyond substantial... unfortunately the electrical system was'nt
OHHHHH. That is no got.:( @ John, COOOOOOL :D |
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Sea King Picture
John,
....a beautiful picture of the Sea King! |
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Great little model and nice sketch.
I worked at IMP in Halifax in the engineering department addressing all the maintenance and servicabilty problems that this aircaft had. IMP also had a contract to overhaul the US Navy and Egyptian Seakings. |
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Sikorsky was approached back in the 1980's about re-opening production of the Sea-King. The tooling was gone and the price too high. They are fantastic helicopters. There are companies specializing in Sea King overhauls and I believe they will be around for a long time as it would be cheaper to overhauls one than to produce a new variant for most commercial users. The Sky Crane is a good example of this as Sikorsky sold the rights to manufacture that helicopter to Erickson-Air Crane. Erickson is manufacturing new S-64's from scratch. I wonder if the Sea-King which has been produced by so many different companies will have a similar future.
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Yes, the Sea King is( or was) a very good helicopter. I was allowed to fly with it ()
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OBI... planning any other Liveries?
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The Australian Navy is long term Sea King operators. Unfortunately they lost one due to a maintenance stuff-up during earthquake relief work in Indonesia a couple of years ago.
http://www.navy.gov.au/aircraft/seaking.html I think many of the Australian Sea Kings were built under license from Sikorsky by Westland. Regards, Charlie |
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@ SteveO
When you have a suggestion,i make it :D. @ CharlieC very interesting Link, thanks. |
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