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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 .
Privately owned ex-military Westland Wasp HAS.1. Westland Lynx helicopters of the Royal Navy Black Cats display team RAF Westland Sea King. WS-51 - Westland Dragonfly; WS-55 - Westland Whirlwind; Westland Widgeon; WG-58 - Westland Wessex; Westland Westminster (1958) – prototype stage only; Westland Scout; Westland Wasp; Westland Sioux; WS-61 ...
Two Westland Whirlwind twin-engine fighters (P6975 & P6978) of 263 Squadron were in a section of three that took off from RAF Exeter and were transitting from Bovey Tracey towards Princetown, Devon to escort two incoming Catalinas from Darrel's Island, Bermuda, to Milford Haven but then re-tasked to patrol off Start Point.
Westland Whirlwind. Cierva C.29 a joint Cierva / Westland project, built but never flown; Westland CL.20 a two-seater autogiro built by Westland, the designation "CL" coming from Cierva and George Lepere (of Leo et Oliver). The war prevented further production. [7] Fairey Rotodyne - Westland Aircraft took over the Rotodyne project in May 1960
No. 32 Squadron reformed on 1 April 1923 at RAF Kenley as a single flight of Sopwith Snipe fighters. [9] A second flight was formed on 10 December 1923, and a third brought the squadron up to strength on 1 June 1924. Gloster Grebes were received at the end of 1924, and were replaced by Gloster Gamecocks two years later.
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.
The Westland Whirlwind helicopter was a British licence-built version of the U.S. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 ... Whirlwind Series 1 demonstrator fitted with P&W R-1340 in 1955.
It operated the Westland Whirlwind HAR.10. It later became the Search and Rescue Training Squadron and then, as part of the reorganisation of the SAR fleet, in December 1979, it became the Search and Rescue Training Unit (SARTU). [1] The Whirlwind was replaced with the Westland Wessex HAR.2 in 1985. The Wessex was a more capable aircraft with ...