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Agility[edit]

Isn't the agility of this helicopter particularly impressive for its type? That is what I have been told, but the article does not make this clear, if this is true. Jason404 (talk) 19:52, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When it was new it was widely claimed to be the only helicopter capable of performing complete loops and rolls. This is of course no longer true - if it ever was. Roger (talk) 18:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Lynx can indeed do loops and rolls, but not when full military operational equipment is installed. The aircraft is then too heavy. However I have seen the aircraft perform these aerobatics at the Westlands' site when I was a technical author there between 1975 and 1977. But what is really eye-popping is to see it fly backwards at 90kts alongside a Fairey Swordfish flying forwards at full speed. Another point perhaps worth mentioning is the fact that the main rotor can be put into negative pitch thus adding to its weight after touching down, a useful feature when landing on the heaving deck of a frigate. Lou Nieburg (talk) 14:55, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Negative collective pitch is a common (perhaps even universal) feature of modern naval helicopters so it is probably not particularly notable. If we can determine (with a proper cite) that the Lynx was definitively the first helicopter capable of inverted aerobatics it would imho clearly be worth mentioning. Roger (talk) 15:47, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC at the time, the only other helicopter that had been looped and rolled was the Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk, however after a spectacular crash at the 1974 Farnborough Air Show it was subsequently cancelled.

Lynx aerobatics here: [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 15:53, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk could indeed do rolls but for technical reasons these were limited to rolls in one direction only, i.e., it could roll one way, but not the other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.10.248 (talk) 07:47, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Current modifications?[edit]

"The Lynx HAS.8 fleet is currently undergoing further modifications, by the Lynx Operational Support Team, to improve self-defence, mission execution and survivability. These modifications will not affect the SRU designation." When was this written? The naval Lynx retired from RN service five years ago. Cyclopaedic (talk) 13:32, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]