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There must be enough sitting in museums and bone yards...

If anyone is interested I have pictures and flight manual extracts for most of this, including USN and RN Sea Kings. This history is at the very core of the discussion of what happens if the Cyclone flops...

Continues from above... The Sea King in the mid to late 2000s found itself doing a role it wasn't optimized for low intensity surface surveillance), waiting for the Cyclone so not able to do any major mods, and without the transitional piece that HELTAS gave it. What has always been missing...

Yeah, it's one of the reasons I'm writing it up here. I'll take these notes and give them to Christine and hopefully she can help me mold it into an article. The other one I've been "working" on is software support to the Sea King...

We did, for both the ASN-123 and ASP. There was an open project for ASP. The powers that be (one of them being the current WComd) wouldn't allow it for "airworthiness" reasons. Funny thing is, they didn't want the repeater to be a distraction in the cockpit because it "wasn't designed to be...

Continuing from above... There are a couple of side notes to the installation of the ASN-123, remembering that this was in the immediate aftermath of the cancellation of the EH-101 in 1993. First, IMP did propose an "integrated mission system." It was (probably for the best) not considered, as...

The was a Bearing and Range only provided to the pilot via the BDHI (Bearing Distance Heading Indicator). It was to the single point selected by "Readout," which could be one of the memories (which was selected by the dial you asked about). The normal memory was one of the points 1-17. PTO was...

The ASN-501 was an analog computer with mechanical switching. When performing functions, such as position correct or record memory, the switches would actually go "clunk" as you pushed them. Here's a picture of the control. All the translucent buttons at the bottom have a red light when they...

Things stayed that way, except for the advanced acoustic trials aircraft (14211, lost at sea), until the early 90s. During this time, the RN introduced the HAS(5), but there doesn't seem to be any consideration that the avionics would be a better fit for Canada (the radar was integrated so...

ASW Mission Management I was looking at the original requirement for the Sea King, which is only about 20 pages long, and saw fully half of a page was for a "computer" to allow the pilot to manage the mission. Interestingly, the computer required didn't exist yet, especially for relative plot...

I looked for an actual historical thread for the Sea King and didn't see one. So then I looked for a historical thread location on the site, and the only one was for the Army. So I'll just drop this here, mods feel free to move. I've been doing research at Shearwater Aviation Museum on...

Or, to circle back to where we started, perhaps Trump should have allowed the process to play out before the election, as suggested by the Senate Majority leader at the impeachment. That way people who aren't MAGAs but prefer a more conservative view wouldn't have to hold their noses. I would...

Nope, I don't have to show my work. That's what it looks like to me and a lot of other people, and I'm never going to be able to convince you otherwise. So, to me it is showing that both sides are using the same tactics (I've made it very clear that I believe the zealots on both sides are the...

The argument can be made just as easily that his allies have applied the rules selectively whenever they are able to for the opposite ulterior aims... SCOTUS has a black cloud hanging over them that two of them have evidence that they are corrupt, and one of those two should have reclused from...

I would listen to that argument, except for this (Mitch McConnel on what should happen because of 6 Jan during the impeachment): Trump has done everything he could possibly do to avoid that consequence before this election, including having a Supreme Court he put a third of in place (enabled...

I have, and I have come to the conclusion that when the politics of division have been allowed to fester in history, it rarely ends well. If you read my post, I never said Trump. I said that many western politicians are playing with a pandora's box that they don't understand the implications...

This is where officer's, when put in the actual situation of having to do this, struggle with There is no personal loyalty to the President. There is the requirement to fulfil duties, which includes both following orders up to when they are manifestly illegal, and then not follow them...

Yeah, but that's the plain Jane version That doesn't say cool like the purchased version (only $19.99 at Canex). And why wear a plain blue T-Shirt when you be stylin' this (only $29.99 for 3 at the CANEX!) I still have stacks of issued blue T-Shirts (they almost insisted I take them...

I'd hazard to guess the experience of a fighter pilot at sick parade would be much different than that of one of 600 grunts in a battalion. In a perfect world we'd have medics in the battalion lines (when I was a reserve medic we carried blisters of Cepacol and the small bottles of Ibuprofen...

Umm... "Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now." I know there is a lot of context around that statement, but it does put a big question mark after "that is still the deal."