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Grateful acknowledgement of your superb rescue effort - night of 12/13 March 2007 |
Dear Hugo
Although I have unfortunately not met you, my wife Sandy has told me all about your skills and ability to mount the search and rescue mission on Monday night. By the time we got through to base camp you had already left for work.
I just find it amazing that you and all your teams from the different rescue organisations are volunteer workers, prepared to risk life and limb, not to mention missing sleep and family time over weekends. I truly salute you and wish I were in a position to pitch in myself, which I cannot for personal reasons.
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WSAR practises, Silvermine technical and Skymed short haul exercises |
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We have now finalised the development of short haul techniques for use with the B3. With this we will be able to extract patients (and rescuers) from situations beyond the reach of the winch or if the winch is unserviceable.
The missing link up until now was a CAA certification for the cargo hooks to allow us to suspend human cargo externally from the helicopter. We now have two, independent, pilot operated clamps.
We were testing on the evening of 30 May, above Rhodes Memorial.
Pictures from Kevin Tromp. Yes, he is a photo fanatic.
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