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Originally Posted by FOG
Seahawk,
I’m a fixed wing bubba, not a rotor head. Had some ancillary contact with the Z out at YPG and was impressed.
Even more impressed that it was decided to buy new vice spend more money on “upgrading” to the Z standard.
Boot Brow was a good friend of mine. The engineers said his mishap couldn’t happen that way until it did. The simulator when flown with the mishap parameters didn’t crash, it does now and they admit the ring vortex and asymmetric issues.
Just my uninformed fixed wing opinion we would have had more useful capability and cheaper with SH-60 variants.
S/F, FOG
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No issue, Fog...my best friend is a retired Marine who was the Program Office Chief Engineer during my time in the Y/Z PMA. I actually wrote the brief that started the build new effort with him.
Most Marine rotor heads share the opinion that the new Navy MH-60S (a program I also worked to first flight in the late 90's, early 2000) remains the answer.
I pray for the men who will fly and ride this thing. As an aside, my wife was a young engineer who worked on the V-22 from 1987 to 1992. She knew all the folks who have perished.