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The Westland Whirlwind was a British twin-engined fighter developed by Westland Aircraft. A contemporary of the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane , it was the first single-seat, twin-engined, cannon-armed fighter of the Royal Air Force .
Data from Westland Aircraft since 1915 General characteristics Crew: 2 pilots Length: 41 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (12.713 m) Height: 15 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (4.763 m) Empty weight: 5,993 lb (2,718 kg) Max takeoff weight: 7,800 lb (3,538 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Alvis Leonides Major 755 14-cylinder two-row radial engine, 750 hp (560 kW) Main rotor diameter: 53 ft 0 in (16.15 m) Main rotor area: 2,205 sq ft ...
Westland Helicopters was a British aircraft manufacturer.Originally Westland Aircraft, the company focused on helicopters after the Second World War. It was amalgamated with several other British firms in 1960 and 1961.
The Butterworth Westland Whirlwind was a 2/3 scale flying replica of the British Westland Whirlwind fighter aircraft of World War II that was built in the United States in the 1970s. The aircraft was based on the wings and horizontal tail of a Grumman American AA-1A modified and mated to an all-new fuselage .
781 Naval Air Squadron (781 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN) which disbanded at the end of March 1981. Planned as a Reserve Amphibious Bomber Reconnaissance squadron, it formed as a Communications Unit in March 1940 and operated a large variety of aircraft.
Westland Whirlwind a license-built version of the U.S. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw with British engines. Westland Widgeon a private venture by Westland Aircraft as an improvement on the Westland WS-51 Dragonfly; Westland Westminster (1958) – heavy lift helicopter, private venture to prototype stage only; Westland Wisp Small remote-controlled ...
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 ...
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