Emergency Services Helicopters

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Colin Bignell

I can see that happening as they get ever more expensive to run and of course a drone is much quicker to deploy as you say. And if amazon are thunking about using them to deliver goods;!..

Mind you if it weren't for an ambulance helicopter I wouldn't be sitting here writing this now;!!

In article , snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com scribeth thus

Humm .. odd that this has just come up;?...

Possibly fewer than 8 if the gearbox has failed;

Chinook, one of the few aircraft capable of having a mid-air collision with itself.

You do not think that that news item was just a bit of puffery? Designed to get media attention, along the lines of the Ryanair proposal to do away with toilets on their planes.

I am not sure whether to congratulate you on having had your life saved or commiserate that you needed to have your life saved? Either way, well done the ambulance service!

Oh, I saw the Wallace autogyro do that at Farnborough too. That was the second person I saw die in front of my eyes....sheesh.

"For helicopters with a single hydraulic system, this condition, if not detected and corrected, could lead to loss of hydraulic servo assistance and increase in pilot work load, consequently resulting in reduced control of the helicopter."

Reduced control != catastrophic falling-out-of-the-sky.

Originally a British device, invented by a Dr Wingate, iirc.

On the video, at 4:12

I know the Skyhook, but not the name Burma Plucker. I always thought the Skyhook was derived from a US Mail pick up system for remote areas, which is what the first bit of the video seems to show.

My favourite bit of CIA spy recovery kit is the Inflatoplane:

Colin Bignell

Mountbatten, observing a pick-up, was heard to say something like, "Thenk fekc it's not me."

Good grief.

Dave Liquorice put finger to keyboard:

Fewer than five a day, on average, these days.

Still five a day too many, of course.

Actually I left of the smiley there;!...

Well for the amazon bit, but the police one a very viable option!..

;)...

Now subtract the ones that are self-inflicted stupidity.

Perceptive man.

Colin Bignell

Newcastle is a trauma centre, I think the other 2 are trauma units and hence are not used for major trauma cases.

Fixed full width rear seats on a number of them and nothing but a very basic first aid carried onboard would suggest otherwise. No stretcher on board, no means of restraining one and no way to monitor a patient during the flight.

A service no longer operating since NPAS came into operation.

There is no mention of the side provision of any air ambulance service on the NPAS website.

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Ah yes, Bud Holland -

I'd rather stick bangers up my arse and light them sequentially in order to get somewhere.

A dreadful bodge of power over nature.

Heh. Yes, "Mostly", being somehow sadly very appropriate here. If they were just a bit better than 'mostly', they wouldn't be flying over cities with a continual eye out for emergency landing spots.