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Joseph Testagrose
July 14th 15, 01:30 PM
RustY ©
July 16th 15, 02:15 PM
And some are still flying today..............
Bob (not my real pseudonym)[_2_]
July 17th 15, 06:21 AM
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:51:45 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
> wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:15:40 +0100, RustY © > wrote:
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>>And some are still flying today..............
>
>Great picture!
>
>I was thinking this chopper looked a lot like the Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, so, I
>looked it up and low and behold the Westland Whirlwind is the H-19 built under
>license from Sikorsky.
>
>As I remember, these were loud, underpowered, did I say loud and not very
>attractive and loud..... :-)
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_H-19_Chickasaw
And the Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 was built by Westland as the 'Wessex'.
Andrew Chaplin
July 18th 15, 03:15 PM
=?UTF-8?Q?RustY_=c2=a9?= > wrote in news:38Opx.5878
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> And some are still flying today..............
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We used to fast-rope from these. They were on the strength of the UN
detatchment of 84 Squadron, RAF, at Nicosia International Airport.
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Andrew Chaplin
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