Royal Navy engineers modify Army Gazelle

Royal Navy engineers modify Army Gazelle

15-Jun-2016 Source: Royal Navy

A team from the Royal Navy’s ‘emergency service’ has saved the day – and potentially £20m – with a speedy fix for the Army.

The Service Modifications team at 1710 NAS has developed a system for the Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter to be adapted to airlift casualties from the battlefield.

And within two days of the modification being fitted it was used to transport a critically-ill casualty to hospital in Canada.

The modification, which took seven months from start to finish, rather than the normal year to 18 months, involves aircraft engineers removing the co-pilot’s seat and controls of the small Gazelle to enable the pilot to transport a medic and a casualty on a stretcher.

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