It might have been a Pilots aircraft but not an engineers aircraft, once it was flying we were told it was good. I have never seen anybody fly it like Capt Drake possibly Major, I'm not sure, our Sgt pilots could never figure out how he managed to make it perform as he did. On an other occasion we largered into a orchard, not a lot of room we discovered when it came to leave, I was Eng/Obs with Major Hicky quite a large chap.
In the end after several times trying to get out of the orchard I had to get out & whilst he flew it to the fence which would give access to a large field, Mj Hickey pulled the revs & I helped to lift it over the fence, climbed the fence & got back in, off we went. A sad helicopter
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