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Helicopter landing at Homefield Park, Worthing.



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Hendrax

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Jan 23, 2013
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Worthing
just been out to see whats going on, 20+ police/rescue crew with headlamps on searching the park.

normally on an exercise they shut the helicopter off dont they, been running for 30 mins now. seems a bit strange for 10:30 on a school night.

Anyone in the area know whats going on?
 










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Smith DID score

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Apr 25, 2009
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Worthing
Hendrax said:
just been out to see whats going on, 20+ police/rescue crew with headlamps on searching the park.

normally on an exercise they shut the helicopter off dont they, been running for 30 mins now. seems a bit strange for 10:30 on a school night.

Anyone in the area know whats going on?
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It's the coast guard helicopter that's just pulled someone from the sea of Goring/Worthing.

Apparently the rescue crew have to clear the park of carrier bags, Plastic Bottles and general detritus before the chopper can land to prevent anything being sucked into its engines......
 




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Hendrax

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Jan 23, 2013
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Worthing
Smith DID score said:
It's the coast guard helicopter that's just pulled someone from the sea of Goring/Worthing.

Apparently the rescue crew have to clear the park of carrier bags, Plastic Bottles and general detritus before the chopper can land to prevent anything being sucked into its engines......
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that sound plausible. Only thing i wonder about is when i got to the park, the chopper had been on the grass for 5 minutes and remained there, engine on, for another 25 mins with the people out searching the park way after it had landed.
 




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mune ni kamome

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Jun 5, 2011
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Worthing
Actually it was between the pier and the lido. Coastguard, police, police boat, ambulance etc. Couldn't see exactly what was happening but loads of rescue people in the sea about 50 yards out, albeit in about 6 inches of water. Seemed to examining small craft or something in the water. Dark so not sure exactly.
 








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Shropshire Seagull

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Nov 5, 2004
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Telford
Smith DID score said:
Apparently the rescue crew have to clear the park of carrier bags, Plastic Bottles and general detritus before the chopper can land to prevent anything being sucked into its engines......
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It won't be that, the down-draught from the rotor blades will send any loose debris clear of the engine(s), plus jet engines are designed to be able to ingest a frozen chicken to ensure it can survive a single bird-strike - a few bits of litter won't have any impact - think of the TV shots from Iraq/Iran with the sand flying everywhere - sand could do damage to close tolerance jet engines like volcanic dust grounded air travel a few years back but with choppers, the sand is blown away from the engines by the blades.
 


vegster

vegster

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May 5, 2008
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Hendrax said:
that sound plausible. Only thing i wonder about is when i got to the park, the chopper had been on the grass for 5 minutes and remained there, engine on, for another 25 mins with the people out searching the park way after it had landed.
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They never seem to turn the engines off on those, think of all the pollution and waste of juice. Lazy buggers. No wonder it costs thousands to run one.
 


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