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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 ...
The first Westland-built Wessex serial XL727, designated a Wessex HAS.1, first flew on 20 June 1958. [4] The first production Wessex HAS1 were delivered to Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) in early 1960; the Wessex was the first helicopter operated by the FAA to be purpose-designed from scratch as an anti-submarine platform. [5]
The plan called for insertion of 3 SBS patrols at Hound Bay, who would then travel by land and Gemini inflatable boat across Cumberland East Bay and set up an OP at Brown Mountain overlooking Grytviken. The SAS plan was more ambitious, and called for a helicopter insertion of Mountain Troop, D squadron, on Fortuna Glacier, 8 miles west of ...
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 ...
2 Westland Wessex HU.5 (crashed in bad weather on Fortune Glacier 22 April) [13] 2 Westland Sea King HC.4 [ 12 ] (1 lost operational accident 23 April) [ 13 ] 4 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (two 801 Sqn CAP collided over the task force on 6 May – one 800 Sqn crashed during takeoff from Hermes on 24 May – one 801 Sqn slid off deck in bad weather on 29 ...
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.
Starting on 17 February 1965, the company operated the Westland Wessex 60 ten-seat helicopter to support these off-shore installations. [9] Throughout the 1970s, Bristow would expand its Aberdeen operation, its main oil and gas support hub being based at Dyce Airport ; in 1972, the company allocated the first of several Sikorsky S-61 N to ...
845 Naval Air Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.Part of the Commando Helicopter Force, it is a specialist amphibious unit operating the AgustaWestland Commando Merlin HC4 helicopter and provides troop transport and load lifting support to the United Kingdom Commando Force and wider elements of the Royal Marines.