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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 .
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 .
This is a list of the aircraft types flown by Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, RN.The list was compiled and verified by the Guinness Book of Records. [1]The list includes only the main aircraft types, for example, Brown flew 14 different marks of Spitfire, but only the basic types are listed here.
Westland Whirlwind (RAF) twin engine fighter; Westland Welkin (RAF) high altitude fighter; ... Model name Introduction Retired Built Operator Airspeed Envoy: 1934: ...
Westland Whirlwind [232] UK Propeller Fighter 1940 1943 Twin-engined piston monoplane Westland Whirlwind [233] UK Rotorcraft Air-sea rescue/transport 1955 1977 Single-engined piston helicopter Armstrong Whitworth Whitley [234] UK Propeller Medium bomber/maritime patrol/transport/trainer 1937 1945 Twin-engined piston monoplane Embraer Phenom T.1 ...
The Whirlwind was the UK's first cannon-armed fighter and faster than many other British aircraft at the time but was troubled by the inability of Rolls-Royce to produce the engines. The Lysander army co-operation aircraft was displaced for reconnaissance as too vulnerable but found favour for specialist missions into occupied Europe carrying ...
Whirlwind Mk I, 263 Sqn Exeter, in flight over West Country. The Westland Whirlwind was the first cannon-armed fighter for the RAF, first flown in October 1938 and at the production stage by 1940. It was a twin engined heavy fighter (also able to function as a fighter bomber with 500-pound (230 kg) bombload).
In his absence Mensford switched the design effort from the B1/44 bomber to work on specification N11/44 for a Naval single-seat fighter that would eventually become the Wyvern. [44] When Petter returned he was furious with Mensford. He knew Westland would not have the resources to develop and build both the fighter and the bomber. [44]