Shiver Me Timbers wrote:
Jim Carriere wrote:


one of the reps said they were
trying to sell it as a replacement for the Sea Kings


Yup..... It's the Sea Kings they are replacing.

I meant in the mid 1990's these were being touted as a Sea King
replacement. I think that was right after the first EH101 contract
(not the Cormorant one, the BIG EH101 contract) was cancelled.

Just the other day the remaining Sea Kings were grounded for some
mechanical failure.

This tends to happen with any type of aircraft, but more often to the
ones that are old- for example, about this time a year ago a lot of
Lynxes were grounded for a short while, something about a titanium
part in the rotor head is about all I remember.

They say for every flight hour that it takes fourty hours of
maintenance.

I think the H-46 is near this figure as well.