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A pair of Royal Navy Wessex helicopters on the flight deck of HMS Intrepid, 1968. An improved variant, the Wessex HAS.3, succeeded the HAS.1 in the anti-submarine role; it had a more capable radar and better avionics, greater engine power, improved navigational features and a more advanced weapon system; the original HAS.1 were re-tasked for SAR duties. [5]
Three Wessex helicopters were dispatched from the Task Force: two Wessex Mk5s from Tidespring and one Mk3 from Antrim. After one failed attempt, they managed to locate and embark the stranded SAS men, but in whiteout conditions, one pilot became disorientated and his aircraft crashed.
Atlantic Conveyor 14,946 GRT – equipped with helicopter pad [6] and carried eight BAE Sea Harriers (809 Squadron - aircraft later transferred to the two carriers), six Hawker Siddeley Harriers, six Westland Wessex helicopters, and four CH-47 Chinook helicopters (18 Squadron RAF); arrived 19 May [3] [6] [22] - hit 25 May by one or two ...
6 Westland Wessex HU.5 [15] 1 Westland Wessex HAS.3 (when Glamorgan hit by shore-launched Exocet on 12 June) [13] Self-destruct in Chile. 1 Westland Sea King HC.4 (on 20 May) [13] Total; 10 fixed-wing aircraft and 25 helicopters.
A Westland Wessex helicopter delivering supplies at Ascension Island in May 1982. The 1982 British military campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands depended on complex logistical arrangements. The logistical difficulties of operating 7,000 nautical miles (8,100 mi; 13,000 km) from home were formidable.
The aircraft was used during the Falklands War and involved in transporting British military figures to the Argentine surrender in 1982. Mr Thomas said he had paid around £25,000 for the fuselage ...
From July 1962 the squadron converted to Westland Wessex, a development of the Sikorsky H-34 produced under licence by Westland, initially the HAS.1 variant, a utility and anti-submarine warfare helicopter, and then in October 1967 it took on deliveries of Westland Wessex HAS.3, an improved anti-submarine version. 737 Naval Air Squadron took ...
Here Lt Col Jones’ grandson, PA Media reporter Henry Jones, reflects on the conflict and what the Falklands Islands mean to him four decades later: For many years, the war never made much sense ...