Farewell To The Lynx: On Board As The British Army Says Goodbye | Forces TV 

Matsimus Your subscribe to this as Well?

You really had to ask that question?

Matsimus hey matt

Lloyd Benson agreed

It's got more history

It’s literally the same aircraft just the wildcat got slightly different modifications

What u got now ?

H.M.S duck Cough wildcat

duck -- they are getting old .. time for them to rest like any old soldier.

We do have the money to replace them, we've already bought a lot of Wildcat helicopters for both the Army and Navy and they're in current use, it's just the last Lynx models being retired now. The replacement has already happened. Also in reality, the Wildcat is very much a modernised, upgraded Lynx, 95% new designed components but at it's core it's still a Lynx design, the Lynx lives on in the Wildcat.

Ben Jones air ambulances have to be specially modified and have to have crews & bases which is the main cost

well, it was just an idea that i had whilst watching the video. I suppose you are right as i personally have no idea how much an airfield might cost to run. I already know the crew have to under go specialist training in order to do the job. However, i was more thinking about other people and how on the various accident type TV shows; they have limited aircraft available. The thought being a life could be saved using ex military aircraft that was as far as i had got.

it might not be that easy as helicopters that old, maintenance can get so expensive it is cheaper to by new ones, plus finding spare parts can become a problem in the long run.

Well, you do have a good point Thomas and i suppose my idea is a bit costly in places such as maintenance.Ii was just trying to give one of these helicopters a chance to do something useful. rather than rot away like most vehicles that are preserved, or sat waiting to become useful again.

Ben Jones would you consider a 40 year old ford transit as suitable for an ambulance? Same thing...

Completely correct, 1972, the year after the first Lynx maiden flight, then broke the record again shortly afterwards. The record set by a modified Lynx on the 11th of August 1986 still stands to this day.

They are maintained better than civilian aircraft but they have a much tougher life, so their future isn't rosy (I was a technician working on Mk 7s in a former life). Most are scrapped. There are 'graveyards' up and down the country where the poor old girls are stripped apart. We technicians know our old 'cabs' and it's heartbreaking to see them being broken down when you spent so long trying to fix them up and keep them flying. The lucky ones get sold as static pieces - I've seen a few being converted as quirky holiday homes. Some might be sold to fly again as civvies, but I haven't seen any Lynx as yet. I've seen other ex-army aircraft types (Gazelles and Scouts) having a long civilian flying life. When it comes to it, there isn't much space in the civilian flying world for hundreds of battle-weary and slightly worn 40 year-old taxis.

FullMetalChicken that was so it could rotate 360 degrees on the flight deck of a ship on the spot by castoring it’s nose wheel 90 degrees and using tail rotor thrust. Thus it could swivel into wind if the ship couldn’t change course 👍

Stuff is getting too old now

@@kittyhawk9707 have you seen what this helicopter can do! 😂

@@downtowngames4631 yeah ..but look at what the English Electric Lightning could do ( one of the fastest climbing planes ever) or the Buccaneer ( one of THE best low level attack aircraft) .. but technology moves on , better system and PURE OLD AGE .. fatigue of the airframe , old technology, harder to maintain .. THAT'S WHY WE NO LONGER DRIVE MODEL T'''s for example..

@@kittyhawk9707 I can't accept it still hurts there must be something they can upgrade! 😂😭

@@downtowngames4631 Yeah I know.. seeing it do a loop was amazing.. but that a moot point now.. They have gone.. I wouldn't have minded one as a personal Helicopter.. amazing machine

Jack Fitzpatrick probably nothing this country doesn't have money to replace them

Jack Fitzpatrick The Wildcat.

H.M.S duck Wildcat will replace the lynx.

Rio- Tic2003 Yes completely right and we have done too. The RN have had their wildcats for the paste three years or so now.

@@ethan.dalton6404 Boring

Wildcat

yeah but they would still kick your ass