Super Puma skidded @ Sembawang Airbase

• wonderamazement

  24 May 08, 20:51

  Originally posted by kopiosatu:

  yah

  but i don't see any pity about them being retired.

  spares are not available, costs a bomb to maintain.

  single engine, should it fail... good luck.

  good thing about it? easy to role change.

  yea... multirole...  i thought of it the moment you guys talked about Medevac using Chinooks...

• sbst275

  24 May 08, 20:52

  Originally posted by kopiosatu:

  of course it can land there

  but the question is, how fast can you get a person to hospital?

  landing on the field is better than landing at the helicopter landing pad at the hospital?

  
  eh

  I dun even know does NUH has helio pad like SGH

• kopiosatu

  24 May 08, 20:52

  Originally posted by wonderamazement:

  yea... multirole...  i thought of it the moment you guys talked about Medevac using Chinooks...

  SP still champion of multi-role.

  under appreciated piece of metal flying around.

• kopiosatu

  24 May 08, 20:53

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  eh

  I dun even know does NUH has helio pad like SGH

  NUH, not sure.

  i know SGH has... and they guys land there directly.

  probably the CH can't go to SGH, so have to divert to NUH and still land at the field.

• wonderamazement

  24 May 08, 20:54

  Originally posted by kopiosatu:

  SP still champion of multi-role.

  under appreciated piece of metal flying around.

  in the SAF that is... after all we've only got that much amount of choppers. the Huey is the icon of the Vietnam war though.

• sbst275

  24 May 08, 20:55

  Many of e Hueys didn't have good fate... many ended up sea burial after '75

• Zooish

  25 May 08, 02:18

  Originally posted by kopiosatu:

  no one is allowed to answer that yet.

  nice try asking though.

  Always worth a try.