Thread: It's not as easy as it looks.
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Default It's not as easy as it looks.
On Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:15:19 UTC-3, Wayne. B wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:37:52 -0700 (PDT), True North

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Way back in the 60's the Canadian Navy developed the 'Bear Trap' system to help land the old Sea Kings on our destroyer escorts.

Helicopter lowered a cable that was attached to a winch in the middle of the flight deck and the helo was slowly reeled in.



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Interesting. Did they lose any 'copters while perfecting the system?

Don't recall if any Sea Kings were lost that way, although over the long 50 year service life many dropped out of the sky or were grounded because of various mechanical problems.
One was flying over my house for a couple of hours yesterday.
We have a base a few blocks away that is used for landings.
http://readyayeready.com/timeline/19...trap/index.htm
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