1. Australia: Airworthiness directive AD/S-92/4 dated 2/2007 re: tail gearbox.
2. Australia: Airworthiness directive AD/S-92/3 dated 2/2007 re: main rotor gearbox. Mandates replacement of main gearbox housing at 2700 hours time-in-service.
3. Australia: Airworthiness directive AD/S-92/2: “This AD requires replacing the MGB lubrication/scavenge pump vespel spline adapters before further flight, and thereafter, replacing them at certain intervals”.
4. Sikorsky signs gearbox maintenance deal with VIHAG, Cougar parent.
5. The S-92 was a candidate to replace the Sea King in the role of Marine Corps presidential helicopter transport. it lost out to the Merlin/Cormorant under the designation US-101.
6. The Canadian defence department selected the S-92 to replace the aging Sea King fleet. The program is behind schedule.
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2 comments:
Unfortunately if the Martin government had not rigged the selection process to favour the S-92 (bypassing the politically embarrassing EH-101 which was the better machine and cancelled by the Libs 10 years earlier) than we would already have the new choppers, ones which have proven themselves over years of service.
The EH-101 should have been the choic ethe first time in 1992.
Everything after that was politics.
Then again, if we want to talk about rigged processes or no processes and the wounds inflicted in defence capability, perhaps you'd like to discuss the complete clusterf*ck of a defence minister who delivered the Griffon.
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