Navy_Blue said:
I can't verify the width of the CH-148 but the length is all most 15 longer. The wings or nacells or what ever you want to call them on the side of them are much bigger than a Sea King. Not to mention the ramp on the back. This thing is going to take up alot more space than you think. Everyone I've talked to in the MSE world has said what I put forth in my earlier msg's. HMCS Montreal first and its a big job. All we can do is wait and see.
Have a good one...
Oh boy, 15ft longer eh? You know that a Sea King is 72ft long when spread right? Sorry, but a Cyclone spread (front edge of the rotor arc to the rear edge of the tail rotor arc) is going to actually be shorter than a Sea King by about 3 1/2 ft. Folded length of both is under 50ft.
The Sea King is a little over 16ft wide when folded, the fuselage of a Cyclone is 12' 9", I don't have the dimensions handy for when it's folded, but I assure you, it isn't much wider than 16ft folded. Hell, not folded it's only 17'3" wide from left sponson to the right edge of the horizontal stabilizer on the tail.
Don't take this the wrong way, but it's been my experience that the Navy doesn't know a whole lot about the Sea King and what it does, so I expect that any knowledge about the Cyclone would be even scarcer. Considering it's the AirDet that puts a helo into the hangar and pulls it out, I'd say there's very few, if any, pers of the ship's company that really know how close the sponsons are to the hangar door.
Cyclone info can be found here: http://www.sikorsky.com/file/popup/0,3038,957,00.pdf
Sea King info is from my brain/Aircraft Operating Instructions.
Whiskey, Cyclone's All Up Weight (AUW) will be 28,000 lbs max, empty weight will be closer to 16,000 lbs or so.