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Aviation History
1954
1954 - 0052.PDF
o peration in mountainous country demands much of a helicopter, because take-off, hovering and landing at high-elevations are arduous conditions. During demonstrations before civil and military authorities in Switzerland, the Mk. 4 Sycamore performed lake and mountain rescue exercises, operated at maximum all-up weight from a mountain-side area at 5,400 ft. altitude, and went through a variety of role demonstrations involving ten landings, changes of loading and take-offs during which the rotors were not once stopped. THE AEROPLANE COMPANY LIMITED ; ENGLAND
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